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 […]
Op-Eds
Froma Harrop: We are entering a new world of caregiving
Is it fair to ask teenagers to give up sports and parties to care for parents or other older relatives? That’s an important question these days, because so many now do.
Dave Griffiths: This and That: Mother’s Day and then some
Mom was the truth in our household. She always knew what to say, and never let us forget that her loving and patient wisdom could address any foolishness three teenage boys came up with.
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.
Rich Lowry: The Columbia University push to elect Donald Trump
No, the brief takeover of a building at Columbia didn’t equal 1968, but any echo of that annus horribilis helps Trump, with perhaps a homage to Chicago 1968 still to come.
Cal Thomas: Bibi ignores Biden
If Hamas and its actions do not define evil, as Hitler’s attempt at eradicating the Jewish people did 80 years ago, pray tell what does?
Froma Harrop: Children in charge on college campuses
The pro-Palestinian protestors have every right to rail against Israel’s actions in Gaza and in the costumes of their choice. But when facing the consequences of breaking campus rules, many plead innocence by virtue of their youth.
Rich Lowry: The only problem Joe Biden has is that people think he’s a bad president
It’s not just that Biden’s job approval is low; he’s trailing Donald Trump on the rather crucial metric of who was or is a successful president.
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.
Rich Lowry: No, Columbia isn’t complicit in ‘genocide’
People who won’t condemn a terror group or the horrific pogrom it carried out on Oct. 7, who never demand that Hamas release its hostages, who single out for condemnation a democratic society beset by profoundly illiberal forces all around it, are presuming to lecture everyone else about “complicity.”