The National Association of Scholars’ report on “diversity at Bowdoin College” (my alma mater) has been out for more than a week now.

The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration’s push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown.

“The world is full of guys,” Corey Flood says in the classic 1980s film “Say Anything.” “Be a man. Don’t be a guy.”

Two clients of mine recently made the newspaper, but not by choice. They are dormitory roommates here at the University of Maine at Farmington and both are 19 years old. Both are also excellent students who had never been in trouble of any kind.

I was proud to vote for the Affordable Care Act, and it continues to make a difference for Mainers.

The National Rifle Association’s security guards gained notoriety earlier this year when, escorting NRA officials to a hearing, they were upbraided by Capitol authorities for pushing cameramen.

Is a bipartisan immigration deal at hand? It’s close.

As I often said at the time, my prospects of election to the U.S. Congress in 2008 rested precariously on the hope that Mike Michaud would defect to North Korea with top secret plans for a turbo-charged fork-lift.

As I watch people text in public — head down, earplugs in, oblivious but still shuffling forward à la “The Walking Dead” — I can’t help but wonder when we’ll see a news story about one of them strolling into traffic and being run over.

Last Sunday’s concluding episode of “The Bible” on the History Channel finished off a 10-hour miniseries that contrasted in interesting ways with a recent think-tank study about the actual treatment of the active faith it depicted.