Barney Frank, the irascible but indispensable liberal lawmaker from Massachusetts who died this spring, was never known as a man of few words.…
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WARREN — It's been four years, an eternity in American political history, since I last drove along a backwoods byway from here to Lebanon, New…
It seems like only yesterday. Tragedies sometimes have that effect. The good times — the triumphs, the moments of joy — aren’t forgotten, but …
There's loads of talk about the struggle among the Democrats about how, or whether, to accommodate democratic socialists in the party. There's…
GILFORD — Taped on the refrigerator are four pictures of the bear that recently wandered behind Robby Cosgriff's house. On the opposite wall i…
CRAWFORD NOTCH — Two hundred years ago this month, a ferocious storm moved through these mountains, prompting a massive landslide that killed…
FRYEBURG, Maine — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except this one has a bad temper.
She was sworn in by Sen. Charles Grassley, who is about to turn 93 and whose grandson, the speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives, is a …
Already it must be said: The semiquincentennial has all the makings of a dud.
A smart editor once gave me an admonition about writing a column: Aim to give your readers something nobody else will offer them. I feel quite…