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Paul Mills: Maine again takes the spotlight in the Electoral College odyssey

Two recent Maine based developments have once again put the state on the national stage of how the country elects its president. The first came last month when the Legislature voted to join 16 states and the District of Columbia in the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement by which the participating jurisdictions are pledged […]

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Austin Bay: NATO in the Joe Biden moment

Vladimir Putin knows the “Joe Biden moment” of Western vulnerability is fading. In 10 years, if we’re lucky, we will read brow-furrowing tomes arguing President Biden’s cowardly Afghanistan withdrawal encouraged Chinese meddling in Asia, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Iranian troublemaking in the Middle East and Hamas’ attack on Israel.

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America’s tents are pitched on shameful truths

The tents house the people we don’t want to see. These humble structures that sit low in the valleys between skyscrapers and monuments, remind us of inequality, of the unpredictability of unfairness, of the ways in which capitalism and the American Dream don’t work. They represent one immoral truth out of many.