Karen Tumulty

Every year, a million people wander through the temple-like rotunda of the National Archives and peer through a thick glass case to glimpse the document upon which this country was founded.

The people entrusted to take care of the Declaration had two duties that were often in conflict: preserving it and making it accessible to the Americans who owned it.

The Founding Father anticipated “Pomp and Parade” to mark America’s birthday. But he didn’t think it would happen July 4.

In their rush to find a strong candidate to run again Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Democrats should have more thoroughly vetted their party's nominee.

The fatal miscalculation by the liberal activists who fueled the rise of an unknown 41-year-old Maine oyster farmer and combat veteran was not that they failed to vet Graham Platner.

The race is the next, and perhaps biggest, battle between the Democrats’ warring factions.

Karen Tumulty Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime Republican lawmaker from South Carolina who went from being one of Donald Trump's harshest

A freshman lawmaker from the state says liberals cannot afford to argue over ideology and must reconnect with the “drowning” working class.

Jackson, a progressive who champions worker rights and Medicare-for-all, has quickly emerged as the favorite to take on Republican Susan Collins in the Senate race in November.

WISCASSET, Maine -- As thousands of Democrats gathered in meetings across Maine this weekend to take the first step to replace Graham Platner as their Senate nominee, former state Senate president Troy Jackson sprinted to a lead so formidable that two of his top rivals dropped out of the race.