Another day, another dead New York City police officer, another grieving widow.

Beijing employs a famous fake map in its war to seize the South China Sea and Taiwan, the nine-dash line map.

L.D. 1718 would encourage participation in Maine’s essential support workforce through access to higher education. This will also help to attract workers to direct care jobs, retain them in the field, and look beyond salary for incentives.

Reams of research show that we have become more isolated and, thus, more alienated from our culture. Out here in the boondocks, our basic culture may even be one of alienation.

The need for investment in Maine’s mental health care system is clear and urgent. We urge the governor and the Legislature to act now by funding the Maine Resiliency package of bills and prioritizing the mental health and well-being of all Mainers.

Happy 14th Anniversary, Obamacare. You have guaranteed 230 million Americans free preventive care. … Most importantly, you have brought the percentage of Americans lacking health coverage to an all-time low.

As the Census Bureau tries to keep up with the ways we Americans see ourselves, the boxes they offer us to check can seem silly, cumbersome and even out of touch. But we all need to look in a mirror sometimes, even if only to find out who we are — and how much we have changed.

Once upon a time colorblindness was an uncontroversial idea. It was considered a core American ideal and worth aspiring to, even if we were failing to live up to it. In recent decades, though, it has run into a buzz-saw of opposition. It clashes with the Left’s near-theological commitment to racial preferences, especially on college campuses, and with fashionable new forms of left-wing racialism.

Our $34 trillion debt is unsustainable, according to most economists. If we don’t act soon, we will be worse off than we are now.

Held every year at Tammy’s Diner and Nail Emporium off I-20 in Augusta, the Tuesday Night Losers Dinner looks like a convention of men whose dogs just got run over.