How about we respect educators as the trained professionals they are? How about we trust their judgment? How about we stop requiring them to reach consensus with those who have not the first clue? If a parent feels their child can’t handle some challenging material, fine: empower that parent to opt the child out of the lesson — not to deny the lesson to everyone else.

Why did Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA with law degree, an MBA and an on-camera gig on “Extra,” a celebrity TV show, leap to her death from a posh Manhattan apartment? As the cliche goes, she had everything to live for.

While we in Maine hunkered down last Saturday waiting out the heaviest snowfall of the winter (until then), our neighbors in Canada were coping with what seemed almost deja vu all over again. A protest rally gone sour.

The North Atlantic Trade Organization is a defensive alliance. No one sincerely believes, not even the Kremlin, that it is going to wage a war of aggression against Russia. Think about it. Since when does Russia have more to fear from, say, Estonia or Poland — countries on the eastern flank of NATO — than they have to fear from Russia?

The Border Patrol’s role is to prevent illegal entry into the country, but this outcry of abuse is always one sided. There is another side, one of valuable, effective enforcement, and even timely, humanitarian actions by these underappreciated officials.

If you are counting on it to simply happen by dint of white males’ good intentions and pure hearts, you will be waiting a very long time.

By more fully embracing an approach geared to living with COVID and returning to normality, Biden could usefully play against type, align himself with shifting public opinion, and acknowledge the reality of the third year of the pandemic when vaccines and boosters are easily available to anyone who wants them.