Reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is more than a display of chronic Biden ineptitude and strategic weakness — the kind of stupidity that threatens world energy supplies — paying off Iran also spurs terrorism and brushfire wars in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries.

A recent research report by Council for a Strong America puts into perspective the financial tolls that child care workforce challenges place on Maine’s economy. The report notes that the lack of child care just for infants and toddlers exacts an annual cost of $57 billion nationally in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue. The estimate for Maine is about $180 million per year.

Making a deal with the Iranian devil will not reverse the public’s view of the Biden administration’s failures. It will only make them worse.

Calls for building mental health services should be heeded. The growing consensus, though, is that social workers can help police but can’t replace them.

Senator, you did well. You found a way to turn ugliness into light, to remind America of itself. Small wonder Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wept. After days of this, years of this, a lifetime of this, she surely needed what you had to offer.