Our economy has seen the closure of thousands of factories and the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs over the past four to five decades. The strategy of globalization is that we will import consumer goods and become a service society. And the “affordability” problem we are facing now is just the tip of an […]

I have heard that Sen. Susan Collins often recounts a meeting with Margaret Chase Smith in 1971, when Collins was a senior at Caribou High School. She credits this conversation with inspiring her to enter public service. As Collins is running for a sixth term (after saying she would be a two-term senator), a comparison […]

There has been much discussion around the pros and cons of the SAVE America Act. Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Republicans are fighting to pass the Act “to rein in the fraud permeating elections in many parts of the country.” To the contrary, the Brennan Center for Justice […]

Graham Platner seems to have appeared out of nowhere and, from the very beginning, seems to have been able to outspend Janet Mills on expensive TV ads. Forgive me if I am wrong, but I worry that he could have been bought and sold by Republicans, perhaps without his knowledge, to run against Janet Mills […]