Two months ago, Julia Roberts held the Golden Globes audience captive as she presented the best musical or comedy trophy. In a couple of minutes of screen time, Roberts accepted the audience’s ...

It was a good idea in 1973, and it’s a better idea now. Public power is an idea whose time has come in Maine – if lawmakers and the next governor truly listen to what ratepayers are saying. The last ...

As a child, I often visited “Miss Blanche’s” home with my parents and siblings in the tree-lined Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. It was a beautiful house on a spacious lot, complete with a ...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources v. Trump demonstrates the Supreme Court’s continued interest in policing the separation of powers, a theme which has been consistently applied ...

The memory of a tin coffee container half-filled with bacon grease remains in my mind decades later. It was kept near the stove and dipped into when mother fried eggs. Why it remains in the mind may ...

Covering Purple Power games at West Ottawa, Hope College and other places each season had unfortunately numbed me a little bit to the issue. Not because I don't think cancer research is an important ...

Indiana's Senate Bill 76 would require local officials to comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests. The bill's opponents argue it removes local sheriffs' discretion ...

One year ago, our lives changed forever — as most people say when they welcome their first child. But our experience began very differently than most. What started as a routine checkup quickly ...

Florida lawmakers have increasingly filed bills to preempt, or override, local government authority. This trend marks a shift from Florida's history as a strong "home rule" state that protected local ...

Posters depicting Alex Pretti and Renée Good are displayed on a wall in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) Donald Trump, JD Vance and other MAGA luminaries often proclaim that ...

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Even President Donald Trump’s push for total, unchecked power may struggle to overcome the potent combination of political reality and moral outrage. Public fury over another horrific killing of a ...