The independent nature of the U.S. Supreme Court often has bedeviled presidents and members of Congress who would prefer to have more control over the lower-profile but co-equal branch of government.

Under the heading of doing the absolute minimum, Congress is on the verge of passing a law that would ban insider trading and force lawmakers to make more timely disclosures about their financial dealings.

Nobody is overly sweet on sugar these days, but a bunch of scientists out West have taken concerns about Nature’s sweetener to an extreme.

Gov. Paul LePage’s proposed overhaul of education in Maine must be a good idea. We know that because the state’s teachers’ union hates it — and the Maine Education Association more often than not hates anything that promises improvements in the way our children are educated. The teachers’ union is interested primarily in maintaining its […]

Add more ammunition to the arsenal of anti-smoking efforts with the latest report on secondhand smoke from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

After weeks of around-the-clock struggle, the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee has come up with a compromise that fixes the hole in the Department of Health and Human Services budget while preserving key elements of the state’s medical safety net.

Washington state is promenading down a controversial aisle that’s familiar to Maine residents after its Senate approved a bill last week legalizing same-sex marriage.

We should thank Gov. Paul LePage for finally setting the record straight.

The swift retreat of the Susan G. Komen foundation Friday from its assault on Planned Parenthood is a timely reminder of the power of protest, especially when its target and purpose are clear and its voices are not only strong but also credible.

After Congress pushed the nation to the verge of catastrophe last year by delaying a deal to raise the debt ceiling until the eleventh hour, our capacity to be surprised by that body’s irresponsible gamesmanship was somewhat diminished.