Susan Collins’s choices are narrowing if she intends to responsibly represent her constituents in Maine, in the nation and among women and their allies. Right now, with heightened concern in the wake of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health which indicates that that a majority of justices are ready to […]

In 2017, when supporting Trump tax cuts, which eliminated the Obamacare individual mandate, Sen. Susan Collins trumpeted assurances she’d received from then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he would promote two bills aimed at stabilizing the insurance market and managing premium spikes. The bills never received a vote. In 2020, defending her vote to acquit then-President […]

Is lying to a U.S. senator to get a job grounds for impeachment? Sen. Susan Collins tells us that what Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, then candidates for judgeships, told her was “completely inconsistent” with their positions in the leaked Court opinion. These candidate judges subsequently provided the same information under oath to a committee […]

When will Mainers realize that Sen. Susan Collins is selling them out? Both parties have representatives who fake independence, but Collins has never cast a meaningful vote. She knew who Brett Kavanaugh was. She has held a Senate seat for decades and always toed the party line instead of supporting Mainers. The voted for the […]

Forty-three years ago, two friends accompanied me to Planned Parenthood. The doctor told me it was “the size of a pea.” I bawled my eyes out, thankful and relieved, and the false piety of religious zealots isn’t going to oppress me anymore. I’d carefully and responsibly examined all other options, including moving to a “farm” […]

I was raised by a woman who was born in 1954. She taught me that not only was my body an amusement park to be enjoyed it was also a temple. I got to choose how it was treated, from the food that I ate to my reproductive options. She brought me to France when […]

Re: Roe v. Wade: If only everyone on both sides of the abortion issue would put as much energy and protest into affordable housing and affordable, easily accessed child care (which also provides a living wage for providers) as they do on their abortion stance. Today, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and […]

Can someone explain to me why so many people are willing to sell their souls, democracy and the US Constitution in their support of  former President Donald Trump? A man with no consistent ideology except serving himself; A man with no lucid policy positions except to aid the rich, and certainly not to help the […]