Thanksgiving is done! The family gathered around the dinner table, Uncle Joe and Aunt Dottie and all the unruly cousins at the card tables in the living room.

WASHINGTON — Why was there an Israel-Gaza war in the first place? Resistance to the occupation, say Hamas and many in the international media.

Ellen Goodman, the liberal columnist, had a unique policy for corrections. Rather than fixing her errors as she made them, she would run a column at the end of December listing them all for the entire year.

President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010.

The nation is deeply divided, facing serious threats abroad and an uncertain economy at home. An unpopular war drags on, and the controversial incumbent president, after a bitter and divisive campaign, has just won re-election with barely 50 percent of the popular vote.

Too many Mainers are sending their hard-earned dollars up the chimney, burning huge amounts of oil.

Call me old-fashioned, but the plan by major big-box retailers to open for business even earlier on Thanksgiving night just makes me sad.

While our public policymakers equivocate and avoid the topic of climate change, the window of opportunity for salvaging a livable planet for our children and grandchildren is closing rapidly.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s opponents have unwittingly come up with a brilliant plan to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” They want to secede from the union.

Just as the war between the states is playing out anew on movie screens across America, Republicans have commenced their own civil war in the aftermath of Mitt Romney’s defeat.