Sen. Susan Collins needs to lead the way in opposing this provision of the “big, beautiful bill.”

I’m heartened by the people and organizations trying to take action.

The federal government’s role in adding to the Palestinian people’s suffering is shameful.

They can start by denouncing President Trump’s cruelty and un-American, authoritarian behavior.

These bedrock programs are vital to public health.

Perhaps its agents aren’t exactly proud of the work they’re doing.

When it comes to the environment, any benefits envisaged by regulatory rollback will be erased by the costs to human health.

In addition to creating an inequity between tipped workers and everyone else, reducing the Social Security credits for many who most need them, if enacted, the income exemption adds substantially to the federal deficit.

Cutting Medicaid as proposed would pose catastrophic consequences for Maine’s most vulnerable, leaving hundreds of thousands of Mainers without health insurance and wreaking havoc on our local health infrastructure and state economy.

Members of Portland’s West End Neighborhood Association just finished reading historian Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny.” Snyder offers important historical insights that are relevant to the present day. In so doing, he draws a sharp distinction between nationalism and patriotism — a distinction that should concern every Mainer when evaluating Donald Trump’s leadership. Nationalists, argues […]