President Barack Obama’s poll numbers are sliding. Around Christmastime, his average approval rating, according to RealClearPolitics, was nearly 54 percent, 12 points higher than his average disapproval rating of 42 percent. Now his numbers have flipped. His average approval rating at 46.6 percent is roughly 2 points lower than his disapproval ...

“You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.” This quotation, often attributed to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, rightly suggests that while it is perfectly legitimate for people to have different political views, they should not be making up the facts. Yet a lot of survey evidence ...

Just last month, William Kayatta of Cape Elizabeth was formally sworn in as a U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals judge. During the investiture ceremony, Bill acknowledged that it was the result of my tireless advocacy, over more than a year, that he was able to overcome political obstacles to ...

Heather Myers was fired from her job at a Wal-Mart store in Salina, Kan., for keeping a water bottle nearby — even though she was pregnant and simply following doctor’s orders to drink plenty of liquids. Her case is far from unique, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Women’s ...

Don’t let the U.S. Supreme Court’s very contemporary cases on gene patenting and same-sex marriage fool you: At least one justice is still living in the 18th century and doesn’t care who knows it. Justice Clarence Thomas followed his astonishingly consistent originalism in Alleyne v. U.S., joined by the court’s ...

The shocking case of Ariel Castro, who kidnapped three young women and held them for years as rape and torture objects, fascinated the nation when it broke last month. But Cleveland has had a problem with residents living in fear of sexual predators for a while now. As Phillip Morris ...

Phil Bartlett doesn’t know much about the costs of the renewable portfolio standards, but he does like to huff and puff about conspiracy theories. In a June 4 OpEd, he conjured up dark, sinister forces aligning themselves against his pet environmental regulations. Among them he cites Americans for Prosperity. As ...

I recently testified before the Maine Legislature in support of LD 1066, a bill that would cause Maine to accept federal funds to insure more than 69,000 low-income Mainers. I spoke as a family medicine physician and as a member of the Maine Medical Association. My practice is Belgrade Regional ...

In 2012, the number of women serving in the U.S. Senate reached a historic high: 20 out of 100. And so we continue to debate about the low representation of women in political office, and the debate continues to hinge on the differences between men and women: Some argue that ...

It’s hard to assess President Obama’s decision to send arms to the Syrian rebels because we still don’t know what kinds of arms he’s sending, how long he’s willing to keep the stuff flowing, or what kind of outcome he’s seeking—both to the civil war in Syria and to the ...