Is religious freedom suddenly under attack in America? That’s what the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops and some non-Catholic allies would have you believe. But reports of the demise of this fundamental liberty are greatly exaggerated.

The residents of Middleborough, Mass., have had enough. In a state with a storied history of Puritan-inspired prohibitions, they voted 183-50 in a town meeting last week to approve a proposal that would, among other things, impose a $20 fine on public profanity, First Amendment be damned.

Every operation that expects to succeed needs a person who speaks the painful truth to power at great personal or professional risk.

Mitt Romney is partly right in his criticism of President Barack Obama’s executive order to stop the deportation of as many as 800,000 undocumented immigrants: It doesn’t go far enough.

Is there nothing the international community can do to stop the bloodshed in Syria?

They’re pretty easy to spot. They’re either going way too fast or way too slow.

Americans won’t vote for president for almost five months, but we already seem to be in the thick of the presidential campaign.

Most of us will never serve in the Legislature, but now we’ll know how it feels. At least how it feels to be a legislator in the age of Gov. Paul LePage.

In his dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively awarded the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, Justice John Paul Stevens made a prediction that now appears to have come true:

The big U.S. Senate primary election is over and the majority has spoken. Not the majority of the 11 percent of Maine Democrats or the 13 percent of Maine Republicans who picked state Sen. Cynthia Dill and Secretary of State Charlie Summers to lead their tickets in November.