Johnson’s political assassination has been as slow and incompetent as the conspiracy to kill Rasputin in 1916.
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Maine Voices: Supreme Court decision based on sadly outdated ideology
The shock of the Dobbs decision should mobilize people to fight for the whole range of human rights now under threat.
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Commentary: The fight against excessive surveillance continues in Maine and across the country
An effort to close Maine’s ‘fusion center’ stalled in the Legislature, but efforts to limit police use of spy technology have not gone away.
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Leonard Pitts: Celebrity convictions don’t mean justice for most
R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell may be headed to prison, but the vast majority of sexual assaults never show up in court.
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Maine Voices: Welcoming new Mainers will address our labor shortage
Stalled U.S. immigration policy is limiting Maine businesses’ ability hire the workers they need to grow.
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Maine Voices: Chilling historical echoes in Supreme Court’s anti-privacy agenda
The erosion of civil liberties, tolerated by the most of the public, was how the Nazi regime took control in Germany.
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Commentary: Court’s ruling on N.Y. gun law missed the legal target
Nothing in the 2nd Amendment prevents states from regulating public gun carrying.
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Maine Voices: James G. Blaine, Maine and the ‘wall of separation’
It’s fitting that the Supreme Court used a Maine case to permit public funding for religious schools since the prohibition got its start with a Maine politician.
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The View From Here: No democracy without trust
Portland needs a government that reflects most people’s values, even when the work is too boring to watch.
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Jim Fossel: Dobbs decision will remake politics
The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade after nearly 50 years of letting it stand as established precedent is already having immediate impact on individuals across the country. The decision – perhaps the most consequential one by the court in my lifetime – will also have political consequences, not just […]