Black Friday is tough on retail workers, but the rest of the year is not so great either.

We’ve seen thousands of sad stories in our time, but the case of a man found in his North Texas apartment three years after his death ranks right up there as one of the saddest. Ronald Wayne White, believed to be a Navy vet working as a defense contractor, was last in contact with his […]

Dr. Mark Flomenbaum has not had a good year.

The United Nations’ Environment Program released a rather dire report Wednesday concluding that by 2030, global production of fossil fuels — extracted coal, oil and natural gas — would be more than double what we can safely consume if we hope to limit the most severe impacts from human-caused global warming. In other words, rather […]

Congress last week stood up for Hong Kong’s threatened freedoms by approving a bill that opens the door to possible sanctions — and at the same time binds the autonomous region up in the U.S.-China trade dispute. The next move belongs to President Trump, who could finally offer Hong Kong’s protesters some badly needed moral […]

Bringing native-born Mainers back to live and work here is a key part of overcoming the state’s aging population and subsequent workforce shortages.

Changes are needed, and not just for safety. They’re necessary to restore the credibility of the U.S. regulatory system.