The barbarians are not at the gate; they’re in the living room with their feet up on the furniture. The Republican Party is an unsalvageable mess, manifestly unfit to govern and a clear and present danger to this country. So our only hope is to hold it at bay until a new — sane — center-right party can be erected in its place.

In her years in the Senate she has worked tirelessly to produce benefits in the lives and livelihoods of Mainers, but she has never shown courage in the defense of America’s ideals. Now is her chance.

If Facebook just wanted to say that Trump is often noxious and dishonest in his social media postings, that’d be understandable. But this would put it in the inherently subjective and highly contentious business of deciding which politicians are worthy and truthful, and which are not.

The CIA has had problems in its past, but none as serious as this. If they continue to succumb to wokeness, the “I” in its acronym will stand for insanity.

It is well past time for us to move past the death measure of Maine’s regressive policies and instead choose the critical and life-affirming practices of harm reduction. Harm reduction is a collection of evidence-based techniques rooted in a fundamental belief that every life is sacred and worthy of care. It is a decision to reframe the epidemic of substance-related deaths away from criminalization and toward public health.

We can eat as much beef as we want and help the environment at the same time. It’s all about how we raise the beef.