Warming seas, predatory cod, and traps that don’t trap. By Gwynn Guilford.

The strange saga of Paul LePage, who’s going to court to see if 65 bills he rejected have accidentally become law. By Russell Berman.

The strangest month in memory at Maine’s State House started with Gov. Paul LePage stepping out of his office to squeeze a squeaking rubber pig toy for the assembled press and call their attention to a tabletop Christmas tree decorated with ornaments bearing portraits of several of his erstwhile Republican legislative allies, including the president of the state senate.

In a stunning reversal of fortune for more than a thousand immigrant asylum-seekers and their families in Maine, it appears that Governor Paul LePage, who vehemently opposes any state or municipal aid going to these victims of violence and persecution, has just accidentally enshrined into law...