The agency’s activities must be halted altogether — and permanently.
Op-Eds
A message of encouragement from Minnesota to Maine | Opinion
Protests and whistleblowing have had limited impact here. My advice? Keep doing all you can anyway.
Maine must not lose sight of Border Patrol | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
Border Patrol has jurisdiction within 100 miles of the U.S. border. Does that make you feel safer? I have to say it’s not doing anything for me.
Faced with ICE, our teachers deserve support of school administrators | Opinion
If administrators lifted restrictions and offered guidance in schools, teachers could mobilize to the best of their abilities.
Gov. Mills’ ‘affordability checks’ do not check out | Jim Fossel
Why won’t the governor explore permanent tax cuts?
Is voting working? What if we rolled the dice instead? | Opinion
Selecting our legislators or magistrates from the public at random, rather than electing them, is an idea worth exploring.
The ‘upspeak’ trend is dragging us all down | Opinion
Upspeak, a speech habit meant to sound cooperative, can register as hesitation, particularly in public settings.
Republicans must hold Trump accountable for global threats | Opinion
Until the party divorces itself from its oligarchical overlords and repudiates Donald Trump, it should be boycotted by patriotic voters of all stripes.
Please stop calling it ‘polarization’ | Opinion
Since when does following the Constitution and the rule of law amount to radical activism? The time for the political center is now.
Time for Maine to think again about a future with Canada | Opinion
Maine’s values — pragmatism, community responsibility, understatement — often feel closer to Atlantic Canada than to the political culture of distant capitals.