Making huge expenditures for transmission and distribution wires may not be the best use of inherently scarce public funds.

Because the brinksmanship of the Cuban Missile Crisis played a large role in my childhood, I have a hard time thinking of nuclear annihilation as an abstract idea.

Your vote in the November election will help determine if Maine continues its policy of funding private schools, thereby requiring Maine to fund private religious schools.

This October, we celebrate 50 years of the Clean Water Act.

Keeping a person’s health information confidential is vital. As a pediatrician, I am ethically and legally bound to protect the medical information of my young patients, and I take that duty very seriously. My patients and their parents count on it. A Florida school district recently made headlines over concerns that teenage athletes were being […]

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I’ve found that gift economies occur within stable clans and exchange economies characterize relationships among transient people.

Has the pandemic lowered the bar for common sense when we’re feeling unwell? It sure can seem that way.