Editorials - Portland Press Herald

Our View: Summers gets marriage question wording right

The secretary of state draws the correct line between civil and religious marriage.

Things aren’t as good as the union suggests, but not nearly as bad as the governor insists.

by Los Angeles Times July 27, 2012

A U.S. Supreme Court case will test whether an insanity plea should be a constitutional right.

by The Baltimore Sun July 26, 2012

Twelfth-graders say that keeping up with school work was too easy, and that’s not good.

The state should address the underlying causes that put people out on the street.

The same infraction should draw the same result, regardless of where it was committed.

by Los Angeles Times July 25, 2012

The public has been generally well served when journalists reveal secret information.

As a society, we should be willing to talk about gun violence and what can be done to limit it.

by Los Angeles Times July 24, 2012

Even as China and Russia delay action, a brutal civil war in Syria is picking up steam.

by St. Louis Post-Dispatch July 23, 2012

Groups trying to revive the stalled measure are on the right track.