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 […]

Yet for all its promise, public transportation will need fundamental rethinking if it’s ever to seriously compete with the private car.

It’s not true that people with mental illness are responsible for most violent crime.