Jim Fossel: Keep your political hopes in check this year

Outlook ... not so good.

The Maine Millennial: Republican hypocrisy is exhausting

The threats to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows are an overreaction – at best.

Commentary: 2023 was the year of the do-nothing House Republicans. In 2024, they’ll do worse than nothing

Opinion: A brighter future for Maine children starts with a whole-family approach

Children thrive when their parents have what they need to succeed. Likewise, if kids are doing well, it’s easier for the adults in their lives to make things work.

Commentary: In defense of Claudine Gay and academic freedom

The university at its best must be a place where stakeholders can disagree with a viewpoint without consequence, except for the possibility of learning.

Opinion: What would Jesus make of today’s conspiracy theories?

Instead of the patient study of cryptic matters, conspiracy theorists promise the interpretive keys to the kingdom to anyone able to open a Facebook account.

Douglas Rooks: Juries, voters should decide Trump’s fate

The former president's name can remain on the ballot without putting the Republic in danger.

Peaceful Means duo talks about using music to uplift, heal

Jan. 6 event is combination of teaching, singing in community with participants.

Opinion: Secretary Bellows begs to differ. Would that it were so simple.

If Maine's secretary of state is correct about what constitutes insurrection, several congressmen and senators may be illegally holding office.

Maine Compass: The Civil War came down to more than just slavery

As the historian Barbara Tuchman once wrote, war is the unfolding of miscalculations.