This week on the podcast, Ben, Cate and Channa dig into Sen. Susan Collins' latest string of controversial votes — from confirming far-right conspiracy theorist Joe Kent and former Fox News host ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is shutting down after more than five decades, and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins had the chance to stop it. The agency announced its closure following the ...

Author: Yasmeen Khan for The Maine Monitor. Yasmeen Khan is a Fitzgerald Fellow at The Maine Monitor and a rising senior at ...

Johnnie Walker, director of housing and shelter services at Partners for Peace, has worked at the domestic violence resource ...

I offer some hope this week to Municipal progressive elected officials who are despairing about how the horrible new Republican budget is going to exacerbate income inequality — a few local policy ...

Although Sen. Susan Collins ultimately voted “no” on the Republican budget bill that passed on July 4, 2025 — a vote many have called performative — she has a long record of supporting deep cuts to ...