WHAT KIND of analysis does $1.6 million buy from the world’s most prestigious management consulting firm? Judging by McKinsey & Company’s 82-page report about the future of work in Massachusetts — not much. The graphics are slick, the insights are anything but insightful, and the predictions have enough caveats to never be proven wrong. Fact […]
Brian Jencunas
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For Koh, second time wouldn’t be a charm
IF DAN KOH runs for Congress in 2020, as there is talk of, it will be the latest proof of that old Boston chestnut, “You can always tell a Harvard man. But you can’t tell him much.” Nothing has happened since his narrow loss in 2018 to make Koh a stronger candidate. Instead, his weaknesses […]
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Don’t write off Biden
THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM about Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is that its best day will be the day he announces, which is expected to happen on Thursday. Then, as voters scrutinize his record, he will quickly fall from frontrunner to also-ran. Most analysts compare Biden to Rudy Giuliani in April 2007, when he led the Republican […]
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Weld looks to make trouble for Trump
BILL WELD ISN’T going to be president. He isn’t going to be the Republican nominee for president. In the one-in-a-hundred, best case scenario, he will win New Hampshire and then end up with no constituency when the race moves to conservative, evangelical-dominated electorates. Despite his practically nonexistent chances of victory, Weld can make a major […]