Tomorrow, Maine voters decide whether to repeal Maine's 4-month-old same-sex marriage law. Don't be mistaken: this is an historic election. Tomorrow Maine can become the first state in the country to support marriage equality in a statewide vote.

Two summers ago I proudly watched as my daughter, Hannah Pingree, was...

Last month -- on one of the most beautiful days of our all-too-short-summer here in Maine, I was proud to have America's newest Member of Congress, Donna Edwards, come to Maine to support my campaign for Congress.

Congresswoman Donna Edwards (MD-04) is a good friend -- I've known her since...

A new study from the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund confirmed what I hear on the campaign trail every day: Americans are deeply unhappy with our healthcare system, and they believe we need nothing short of a complete overhaul.

In the study, "Public Views on U.S. Health Care System Organization: A...

Last week, Exxon Mobil announced they made more money last quarter than any company in the history of the United States -- $11.7 billion in profit in twelve weeks. $90,000 every 60 seconds. As American families struggle to figure out how to pay for $4 a gallon gas and...

I'm watching with interest the struggle over whether Karl Rove and other White House advisors have to testify before Congress. Just yesterday, U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled that there's no legal basis for the administration's argument that White House aides are immune from congressional subpoenas and that Bush's former...

Great news this week from the FCC (and I haven't had the chance to say that many times of the last seven years). By a vote of 3-to-2 the Commission has confirmed what many of us have known for sometime -- that it's wrong for Internet providers to discriminate...

Today Maine Congressmen Tom Allen and Mike Michaud voted against the FISA bill that the House Leadership endorsed -- a bill that not only gives retroactive immunity to the telecom corporations Verizon, AT&T and others for illegal wiretapping, but makes it unlikely we will ever even know who were the...

An important bill that would create a cap and trade system for greenhouse gases died in the Senate. The Lieberman-Warner bill fell a few vote shorts of what was needed to move it along. Republicans did everything they could to derail the bill, including a parliamentary maneuver that caused the...

Major General Paul Eaton, now retired, oversaw training the Iraqi army in 2003-2004. He helped craft A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq and joined with me in writing this piece about the plan.

Last month, a half-dozen Democratic congressional candidates from around the country gathered in...

The Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq is beginning to shift the debate with some national commentators. Yesterday morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the Plan came up as a subject, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, clearly got it: "There are no military...

I was excited to find an email from the Public Campaign Action Fund in my inbox this afternoon. It contained the 2008 Voters First Pledge -- a promise to support a system of public financing for federal elections -- like the one I'm a candidate in now.

Two years ago,...

In the five years since the United States invaded Iraq, nearly 4,000 American troops have lost their lives, 27,000 more have been injured and maybe as many as a million Iraqis have died. And we learned last week the cost of the war might exceed $3 trillion....

Are Scott McClellan's soon to be published words (already leaked by his publisher) going to be the beginning of the end for the president? If they are true, they should be. Here is what he said, according to the New York Times:

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book,...

Clearly, it is not a good day to be someone important and try to go vote. Read on to see what happened to Chelsea Clinton in NY, Mark Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina, and Robin Carnahan the secretary of state in Missouri. Of course, even worse -- try to...

Jimmy Carter, the man who many of us consider the most credible voice on whether an election is fair and accurate, had a few things to say on NPR Monday night. He was being interviewed about his observation team's impressions of the Nicaraguan elections, conducted on this week. His...

The shouldn’t-be-shocking-but-still-is news out of Canada last week that their health minister will attempt to ban the shipment of drugs to the US has the hands of the pharmaceutical manufacturers written all over it. I had an opportunity to discuss this bad news on TV a couple of nights ago...