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Learning to respect someone for who they are, not trying to remake them in your likeness, is something most people have to learn about love. It applies to politics, too, author Jeanne Safer says.

For years, Jeanne Safer has received letters from people whose personal relationships have been upended by political differences. She’s heard of engagements being called off, siblings who are

Americans gathered in Washington on Thursday as one nation, feeling a little divisible, struggling to maintain unity on the Fourth of July, a summer ritual that normally brings a day-long pause to partisan hostilities. But that was before President Trump updated the day with his unique stamp — speaking of “one people chasing one dream and one magnificent destiny” from a Lincoln Memorial

Refugees came to rebuild their lives, and rebuilt a town in turn. One Mainer who tracked this former mill town’s yearslong transformation found herself transformed: The native debunked her own biases about the newcomers.

When I was growing up, Lisbon Street in Lewiston was the center of the world. A few times a year, my family drove there from our village 45 miles up the Androscoggin

President Barack Obama on Wednesday said America had “fought its way back” from the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression and warned Republicans not to create another budget “fiasco” this fall that could knock the country off course yet again. In sharper and more traditionally partisan terms than many expected, Obama took credit for helping to shepherd the economy back from the