Robert B. Charles

Franklin's almanac, printed from 1732 to 1758, gave us "A penny saved is a penny earned" and "Lost time is never found again" — lines that still hold.

Only 35% of parents are satisfied with public schools. New data reveals a troubling decline in math and reading. What's really happening in America's classrooms?

The Democratic Socialist Party now backs Democrats from Maine to California, and a writer who lived in the Soviet Union, Poland, and Laos says he watched every right vanish there.

William Wordsworth's 1804 poem "Daffodils" recalls ten thousand golden flowers dancing by a lake, a memory that lifts the heart long after summer fades into fall.

Longfellow's twelve-line poem follows an arrow lost in flight and a song lost on the wind, both found again years later in the heart of a friend.

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, between the recessions of 1893 and 1896, when Americans wanted work and could not find it.

Water still boils at 212 degrees and freezes at 32 no matter what the world insists, and Kipling's poem "If" and Christ's words remind us the constants hold.

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up," Frost warned, one of the sharp, funny lines he left in prose rather than poems.

Addiction is a national pandemic, and states like Maine are being hit hard. Real recovery demands governor-level leadership and a true "get-well, stay-well" plan. Here's what's missing.

Seven friends died at the Pentagon that morning, among them Angie, who trained the author and always wore a cross, and Darin, who gave up his fighter-pilot dream.