We no longer have Election Night; we have Election Days. In 2020, the general election was held on Tuesday, Nov. 3, but most media organizations didn’t call it until Saturday, Nov. 7.
Op-Eds
Froma Harrop: Trump threatens Social Security’s stability
Without changes in how Social Security is currently funded, benefits would be cut 23% by 2035. With Trump’s tax plans, benefits would be slashed 33%.
Froma Harrop: Trump simply likes to scam little people
If Trump has so much money, why does he run these grifts? There’s a simple answer: It’s a game. In his moral universe, a successful scam targeting the little people who buy your story is just good fun.
Cal Thomas: Harris appeals for the anti-Catholic vote
For Kamala Harris to openly promote abortion on the same day as the Al Smith dinner, and after declining an invitation to attend, will not sit well with some Catholic voters.
Rich Lowry: Harris has no credibility on immigration
That Kamala Harris is so tinny and unpersuasive on the border is, in large part, not a product of poor communications skills; rather it is part and parcel of a strategic choice to try to muddy the waters instead of admitting how and why the administration created an utterly avoidable debacle.
Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts
Decisions about what to promote on his businesses are Mark Zuckerberg’s First Amendment right to make. But his users deserve transparency about what topics are limited — and how the social network determines what’s over the line.
Austin Bay: Free world air-space defense must defeat super fast and very slow
For over two decades, often-hysterical opposition from the American political left stalled deployment of an operational missile shield. Their hysteria was a fossil rite drawing on their Cold War opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.
Froma Harrop: Must we feel sorry for those who believe MAGA?
The tricks Donald Trump tried to play on the recent hurricane victims were beyond depraved.
Cal Thomas: Regime change in Iran is the only option
The need to topple the theocratic regime in Tehran has become more critical as Iran nears the ability to produce and launch nuclear weapons against Israel and possibly the United States.
Regina Rooney and Katie Matzell: Domestic violence homicides call us to persist and strengthen efforts to end abuse
Throughout October, domestic violence programs across Maine have been and will be hosting various events and campaigns, honoring survivors and encouraging communities to move beyond awareness and act to end domestic abuse. But the work to end domestic violence doesn’t belong to October alone.