Mark Sanford is likely to find out that voters forgive shamed politicians only if their spouse does so first.

Brad Paisley thinks he can’t put himself in someone’s else’s life, but first you have to try.

Supreme Court justices get wrapped around biotechnology’s axle in creative metaphors.

Publicly assessing a woman’s looks is not only unbecoming to a president, it’s just stupid.

We should renew the entrepreneurial spirit of our founders and build from the bottom up.

The question is whether the justices will force gay-rights activists to win the right state by state.

Really? Bobbie Smith, too? Geez. This is what I’m thinking when word comes that the lead singer of the Spinners has died. It comes a month after Richard Street and Damon Harris, who sang on “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” with the Temptations, passed away just days apart. Now Smith, whose ice cream dollop of […]

Almost every day we hear some politician or talk show host griping about welfare abuse or oversized social programs. “Government is larded with waste, fraud and abuse,” they bellow. The people who enthusiastically agree believe that the world’s problems will be solved by making government go away. Another group thinks that’s crazy, having fallen almost […]

The Republican National Committee released a report Monday charting the party’s road to revival – only for Chairman Reince Priebus to give its most important recommendations the Grand Old Punt. Tucked into the 100-page document – mostly a compilation of prosaic suggestions such as “reinstitute field finance team structure” and “develop a surrogate list of […]

Maine would get so much more from support for startups than from bidding on questionable schemes.