As the Senate this week begins considering President Obama’s nomination of Allison Macfarlane to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it should remember that lawmakers helped create the expensive and risky mess that currently serves as nuclear waste policy in America.

High school graduation is a mixed blessing for too many Maine families.

On April 1, when Japan lowered its corporate tax rate, this country’s 35 percent tax rate became the highest in the industrialized world.

On Monday, Maine showed the world how to advance economic and environmental interests at the same time with a comprehensive project that involved state, federal and tribal governments, along with private power companies and non-profit groups all working together.

Determining how much is too much in the way of pension benefits for former members of Congress is an impossible task, given the variables involved.

It had to come to an end sometime. After days of pomp and pageantry, of waving flags and rousing music, the boats have been moored, the ceremonial uniforms set aside and the bunting taken down.

With combat operations in Iraq at an end and the U.S. presence in Afghanistan winding down, a lot of soldiers are marching home. These cutbacks, which began last year, have consequences.

Mitt Romney officially sewed up the Republican presidential nomination with his victory in Texas.

A few of us will go to the polls on Tuesday, when a minority of registered Democrats and Republicans will pick their candidates for the big U.S. Senate race in November.

The official position of China’s rulers is that the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 3-4, 1989, is not open for discussion: A student-led “counter-revolutionary rebellion” was put down by security forces. Case closed.