Michael Dukakis

Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee who is now a Northeastern University political science professor, said the governors should heed the message he delivered during a speech in April to Grow Smart RI in Providence.

In Michael Dukakis, many see a progressive hero. Others see a presidential flop. Now, in the winter of his career, Massachusetts’ political lion makes his final case.

Dukakis is a member of the school’s board of directors, one of seven boards on which he serves. He teaches public policy at UCLA in the wintertime and spends the rest of the year at Northeastern, where he is a distinguished professor of political science. Dukakis is able to teach his students about the hard […]

The election of Donald Trump has changed the nature of the political debate in America, and that applies with perhaps greater force to young people. As my former boss Michael Dukakis, who has been teaching at Northeastern University for many years, recently wrote to me: “Trump in an interesting kind of way has really turned […]

Michael Dukakis sometimes got roughed up politically as governor of Masschusetts and Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. Last week he got roughed up literally — all in the name of a cleaner Boston. A passerby spotted Dukakis with blood on his face the morning of Dec. 8, but Dukakis said it was just a mishap. […]

Michael S. Dukakis, the Democrats’ 1988 presidential nominee, won the state by 5 percentage points. Mitt Romney — the Republicans’ presidential nominee 24 years later and a figure with no plausible personal or cultural affinity with voters here — won all 55 counties in the state in the last election, taking West Virginia’s five electoral […]

Such long-term changes are in train everywhere, and the unusual profile of Mr. Trump adds new wrinkles to the map. He could lose the GOP redoubts of Utah and Idaho (both Republican in every election since 1952 with the exception of the 1964 Barry Goldwater debacle) because of his attacks against Mr. Romney, which did […]

On his two-mile walk to work, the distinguished professor crosses a playground, whips a crumpled plastic grocery bag out of his canvas briefcase, and plucks a tissue – a used tissue – off the ground. You stifle the “ew!” if you want to keep up with his brisk pace. It seems like a low-impact task […]

One of the few people who can really understand what Hillary Clinton is experiencing as she’s about to become the Democratic party’s presidential nominee is a former governor of Massachusetts: Michael Dukakis. He was the party’s unsuccessful nominee in 1988. Dukakis travels to Philadelphia later this week for the end of the convention. We caught up […]

“It’s important to understand that both South and North station are getting increasingly congested,” he said. “We’re getting perilously close to a point where we’re not going to be able to get any more trains into those stations. Both of them, by the way. The answer from the [MBTA] over the course of the past […]