GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s position on releasing his tax returns is a work in progress; it is evolving, let us say, and rather quickly, too.

Every once in a while, President Barack Obama decides to confound Republicans and combat his image as an anti-capitalist by presenting himself as an advocate for business.

In politics, very little free speech is free. The more money a candidate spends, the better his chances to win the election. And the more money a candidate raises, the more favors the soon-to-be-elected official will owe.

For millennia, we thought our little solar system of eight planets — nine, if you count Pluto, as some sentimentalists still do — was unique in the universe. Then, in 1994, astronomers began to discover extra solar planets, and even though we weren’t alone anymore, it seemed as if we were still part of a pretty exclusive club.

A year ago, on the Friday before Martin Luther King Day, Gov. Paul LePage delivered a vulgar on-camera insult to the NAACP that has dogged him throughout his first year in office, and probably will stay with him for his whole administration.

The Chicago Tribune editorial page endorses swearing. Loudly. (We endorse swearing loudly, that is; our endorsement itself is sotto voce.)

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords returned to the scene of the crime for the first time on Sunday.

We have a juvenile justice system for a reason: As a society, we don’t believe that adolescents always have the capacity to make good choices, so when a young person commits what would be a crime if it was committed by an adult, the justice system is focused on rehabilitation, not punishment.

We tolerate a certain amount of risk every time we get behind the wheel of a car or truck, but as a society we make and enforce rules to minimize that risk.