Negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans over a package of immigration provisions and new funding for Ukraine have put the border at the center of the political discussion, and the White House is faring poorly.

The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay will make no difference without a fundamental restructuring of what is taught. The same goes for other institutions of “higher learning.”

The Maine Land Use Planning Commission must reject Wolfden Resources’ application to rezone its land near Pickett Mountain in the Katahdin region for zinc mining.

Here’s 2024’s strategic challenges column — challenges to our so-called international strategic order, meaning threats to human life and economic well-being on a continent-regional or global scale.

The Democratic mainstream should stop trying to placate the children and replace them with centrist independents and Republicans done with the Trump show. Happily, that may have started already.

If 2024 is set to be tumultuous and unpredictable, just wait until 2025 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again later his year.

Until this week, the chatter about corruption in colleges revolved around massive amounts of money that drove a rejigging of athletic conferences. Then, a second discontent cropped up. Put it under the heading of “Be careful what you say.”

The former head of the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic and current science advisor to President Joe Biden, Francis Collins, has noted that he and his colleagues demonstrated an “unfortunate” narrow-mindedness.

When it comes to the open southern border it could be argued — and should be argued by more members of Congress — that the president has violated his oath, which is reason enough for impeachment.