Those of us who have never been in the military don’t understand what it is like to serve in the military. My father never wanted to talk about the war. A waist-gunner and radioman on a B-24, he was unlike some other veterans from the neighborhood who traded stories about the places they’d been and […]

All that Dreamers have contributed to our country, and more, is now in peril.

One measure of progress for women in our state, the “gender wage gap,” has improved significantly over the last eight years, and Maine’s rank has jumped to 15th best in the country. Though we have made significant progress, we have not yet eliminated the gap and there is certainly more work to do to improve […]

There is a difference between religious freedom and religious privilege. Neither Jay Ambrose nor Attorney General William Barr showed they understood the difference: Ambrose in his recent op-ed column, “William Barr is right about religion,” and Barr when he spoke at University of Notre Dame. Christian nationalists  —conservative Christians working to make their religious beliefs […]

President Donald Trump has offered multiple lines of defense against House Democrats’ allegations that he appeared to abuse the power of his office in his dealings with Ukraine’s new government. Some are situational and temporary, such as his argument that the process was illegitimate because it hadn’t been authorized by a vote of the full […]