Opinion
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Our Congress has too much serious work to do for its members to waste time and attention on a minority of members who don’t want to do the hard work of building a majority the old-fashioned way — with persuasion, negotiation and counting votes.
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Donald Trump’s cursing was the perfect finish to a week that included the salacious testimony by porn actress Stormy Daniels at his trial. I understand he is frustrated by a trial that seems to him, and many others, like a political hit, but that doesn’t justify a potty mouth.
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The only thing President Biden has to fear ... is that everyone can sense he's afraid.
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Who would oppose legislation to outlaw antisemitism? More people than you might think.
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Vladimir Putin knows the "Joe Biden moment" of Western vulnerability is fading. In 10 years, if we're lucky, we will read brow-furrowing tomes arguing President Biden's cowardly Afghanistan withdrawal encouraged Chinese meddling in Asia, Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Iranian troublemaking in the Middle East and Hamas' attack on Israel.
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Mom was the truth in our household. She always knew what to say, and never let us forget that her loving and patient wisdom could address any foolishness three teenage boys came up with.
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Is it fair to ask teenagers to give up sports and parties to care for parents or other older relatives? That's an important question these days, because so many now do.
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No, the brief takeover of a building at Columbia didn't equal 1968, but any echo of that annus horribilis helps Trump, with perhaps a homage to Chicago 1968 still to come.
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May 11If Hamas and its actions do not define evil, as Hitler’s attempt at eradicating the Jewish people did 80 years ago, pray tell what does?
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The pro-Palestinian protestors have every right to rail against Israel's actions in Gaza and in the costumes of their choice. But when facing the consequences of breaking campus rules, many plead innocence by virtue of their youth.
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It's not just that Biden's job approval is low; he's trailing Donald Trump on the rather crucial metric of who was or is a successful president.
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The tents house the people we don’t want to see. These humble structures that sit low in the valleys between skyscrapers and monuments, remind us of inequality, of the unpredictability of unfairness, of the ways in which capitalism and the American Dream don’t work. They represent one immoral truth out of many.
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People who won't condemn a terror group or the horrific pogrom it carried out on Oct. 7, who never demand that Hamas release its hostages, who single out for condemnation a democratic society beset by profoundly illiberal forces all around it, are presuming to lecture everyone else about "complicity."
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There needs to be a certain radical acceptance of the right to make bad choices.
Today's cartoon
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Letters
In rebuttal: Jonathan Cohen: Thiessen’s ‘deliberate amnesia’ makes Trump’s threat more dangerous
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Marc Jalbert: Biden administration gets too much blame
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Ben Lounsbury: Thankful to live in Auburn-Lewiston area
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Opinion
Anthony Shostak: ‘The road to authoritarianism is paved with good intentions’
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Beth Bell: Libby brings ‘the voice of the people of Maine to Augusta’
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Renee Cote: House District 90 would benefit from ‘Coach Dan’
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Ronald Lebel: Rep. Libby stands for values that Democratic Party has rejected
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Thomas Peters II: Clement would help curb Maine’s overspending
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Carole Richards: ‘Women will not be shoved back into the Dark Ages’
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Joseph Pelliccia: Sheats offers ‘excellent’ record of accomplishments
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Elizabeth Garcia-O’Keefe: Holman is for Hartford, not partisan politics
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Rene Fraser: Libby supports limited government, innovative free market
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Larry Gilbert Sr.: Students rightfully want their colleges to divest
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Nathan Harmon: Clement offers fiscal responsibility to House District 96
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In rebuttal: Rudolph Ziehm: Trump is someone else’s candidate
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Rep. Margaret Craven: Pride in Lewiston schools
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Holly Cooney: Campbell offers strong, committed voice for Auburn, Minot
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Barbara Arsenault: Teachers, nurses deserve to be celebrated
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Joe Voisine: Can America afford another Biden/Harris term?
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John Cleveland: Campbell offers commitment, service to House District 90
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Bob Mennealy: Kudos to Auburn leaders for hearing development concerns
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Harper Chance: Library shouldn’t be ‘catch all’ for Lewiston’s unmet needs
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Tu Biederman: Lewiston council should prioritize library funding
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Jon St. Laurent: Byzantine hospital billing practices must go
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Richard Pickett: Biden must act in best interest of American people
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Peter Zanoni: ‘We need those babies’
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Audrey Murphy: Rep. Libby ‘is the real deal’