Within 11 days before the state election, two hurricanes hit Maine and had an influence on voters.
Carl Natale
Web editor for SunJournal.com
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Photo Album: See youth bowlers enjoy the game at Just-In-Time Recreation
An extraordinary resolve and resiliency brought parents and children back to a youth bowling league shattered when a gunman fired on bowlers — including several adults and about 18 children involved in the league — at Just-In-Time the night of Oct. 25, 2023.
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Posted inOpinion, Perspective
How Trump may try to challenge the election results if he loses again
If Harris wins, election officials and experts worry Trump and his supporters will not peacefully accept that outcome.
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
Projection: Why Trump accuses people of wrongdoing he himself committed
Candidates use psychological strategies to win support and to cast their rivals in a negative light. In projection, people seek to lessen their own faults by calling out these faults in others.
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
How reported threats in North Carolina trace to Trump-fueled misinformation
Americans are experiencing the real-world consequences of throwing conspiracy theories into a tense situation — again.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Bethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Here are the Maine Press Association awards presented to the Sun Journal
During the weekend, the Maine Press Association recognized the Sun Journal for its excellence in news coverage.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion, Perspective
Elliott Epstein: Perhaps America could use some more ‘gibush’
Israel has an intense communal, can-do spirit that keeps the country united and its economy innovative
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
Accept our king, our god — or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas
The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
Many U.S. states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a longer — and even more fraught — history in Latin America.
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
Seven times people discovered the Americas — and how they got here
Columbus’ was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.