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Despite his high-profile controversies, Platner is still popular with Mainers. But leadership isn’t budging from its centrist pick.

Despite White House claims, the EU’s human rights official argues that “democracy is thriving” on the continent.

It’s the latest case study in the persistent failure of transnational solidarity.

The German philosopher built the 20th century’s most rigorous defense of democratic reason and then watched it tested.

Leftists and nationalists are managing to completely break republicanism.

It can neither protect Lebanon from Israel nor disarm Hezbollah.

The Atlantic alliance is over. The best to hope for is an entente recognising Europe and the US still have shared interests.

Progressive politics has rediscovered affordability, but an economic agenda that ignores the dignity and quality of work is only half a strategy.

Tehran’s compulsive gambling has paid off in the past, but this time looks different.

Thousands of detainees are in danger from U. S. and Israeli strikes and Tehran’s vengeance.

Private Chinese capital is being locked out of mutually beneficial opportunities.

Jordan Wood, who is running in a Democratic primary for a Maine House seat, gave PAC money to Republicans.

One man, who admitted he had entered the U. S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps pursuing similar cases, puzzling legal experts.

A study says warming has accelerated in the last decade, with temperatures rising nearly twice as fast as they did between 1970 and 2015.

In just one year, Trump has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted fossil fuel forecasts, and sought to silence an island nation.

Democratic backsliding and rising social insecurity have gone hand in hand.

Presidents cannot ignore the long-term costs of dismissing the truth in pursuit of national security.

Joshua Hunt on Ukrainian sumo, the Japanese far right, and the changing face of the country

When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover. If new species don’t replace old ones, they say, ecosystems may have less flexibility to respond to habitat loss and climate change.

The mere existence of a second Mary Bronstein movie, much less one as amazing as this, proves that patience and a bad attitude are not just their own rewards. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her second film and her first since 2008’s Yeast , is a masterpiece of alienated frenzy. It’s a comic version of The Exorcist in which the mother is the one possessed.