The recovery of a sophisticated bomb that U.S. officials believe was intended to be used in a suicide attack against the United States has underlined the reality that the war against al-Qaida is not yet over — and that it will not necessarily end, as President Obama suggested last week, in Afghanistan.

Barack Obama’s evolution reached its conclusion on Wednesday, when the 44th president of the United States said he supports same-sex marriage.

Concerned that mobile phone networks are becoming surveillance tools, the American Civil Liberties Union recently asked hundreds of local law enforcement agencies whether they’ve tracked people’s movements through their cellphones.

We don’t usually get much news out of state political conventions because, usually, not much happens.

Few political observers have compared the 42nd president of the United States with the 36th.

Youngsters have pitched in on farms for generations. The age-old tradition is nothing new.

The United States Justice Department has opted not to reopen the 1970 Kent State shooting investigation. Four-plus decades have come and gone, so we agree with that decision.

Maine’s Freedom of Access Law makes it very clear that public meetings and public records should be just that — public. Yet Mainers run into problems when they are trying to get records that the law says they have a right to see.

A state that prides itself on being open for business ought to know what business it is in.

Some people want government to behave more like business. Revelations about the government officials who found high-paying jobs in the University of Maine System just as the Baldacci administration was leaving town shows why that is rarely a good idea.