KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — Jeb Bush. Hillary Clinton. Justin Trudeau. Is this the decade of the dynasties? All three are reaching toward North American leadership, with Bush and Clinton running for president and Trudeau hoping to follow his father as prime minister in Canada’s federal elections next month. All three are reaping the benefits of a […]

October 15th of this year will make 90 days since the Legislature adjourned for the year. This is notable not only because it means I’ve been out of Augusta and able to be at home regularly for three months, but also because it is the date that many of the laws passed during the legislative […]

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid,” Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1855. “As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it, ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except […]

Donald Trump failed to correct a questioner who said President Obama is a Muslim and not an American. Ben Carson opposes a Muslim being president. At least five conservative Republican candidates oppose allowing children born in the United States of foreign parents to be citizens. These are “birthright” babies or, more critically, “anchor babies,” suggesting […]

He didn’t seem like the type. Looking at him, you’d think he was just like every other mid-40s government official: gray jacket over a white shirt, tie slightly askew, nicotine stains between his index and middle fingers. The kind of guy you’d barely notice if he walked by you in an airport or a corner […]