America is so deeply divided today that voters backing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don’t just live on different continents from each other. They live on different planets. If current trends continue, and Clinton becomes the next president, she will find that governing this fractured country is a much harder job than winning the election. […]

Maine has been unexpectedly featured on this year’s national political scene, thanks to its unusual way of voting for president. Each state gets a number of electoral votes for president that adds together the number of senators (two per state) and the number of members of the House of Representatives (based on population). Maine has […]

I’m running out of cartoon characters. Every year I pick a colorful creation from my comics-and- TV-obsessed adolescence, figure out a way to make a costume from scratch, and show up to my friend’s annual Halloween party dressed like an absolute buffoon. This strategy has gone over pretty well so far among my fellow masqueraders, […]

November is a transition month both on the Earth and in our skies above. Most of our foliage has fallen now as we are half way through autumn and getting ready for winter. Looking up into the eastern sky you will notice that more and more of the Winter Hexagon is revealing itself even as […]

LAS VEGAS – Standing in a garish hotel lobby, casino music pounding, a Republican who has worked hard to help Donald Trump couldn’t quite believe how the final presidential debate had ended just a couple of hours earlier. “He had a home run going – a home run – and then he pissed it away […]