Clarence Page: Donald Trump goes all in defending Jan. 6 mob and Karl Rove goes off

Columns & Analysis

Published
April 14, 2024

Clarence Page: Donald Trump goes all in defending Jan. 6 mob and Karl Rove goes off

Republican strategist Karl Rove has some excellent advice for Donald Trump, which, judging by his usual resistance to even the mildest criticism, Trump probably will refuse to hear.
Published
April 14, 2024

Cal Thomas: Trump’s abortion statement

Trump’s statement, while welcome in part, cedes the moral high ground when he says abortion is up to individuals. That puts us back to where we started from, with the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
Published
April 14, 2024

Froma Harrop: The anti-abortion right is not into compromise

What Donald Trump is truly in favor of is not caring one way or another. Unfortunately, the anti-abortion right cares very much. The end of Roe has emboldened it to go after the compromises it never wanted to make and the great American majority demands.
Published
April 14, 2024

Austin Bay: As Israel crushes Hamas, aid Ukraine and secure American borders

Republicans have watched the border deteriorate. The Republicans argue, sensibly, we need to defend our borders as well as Ukraine's.
Published
April 13, 2024

Bob Neal: The Countryman: When regular people sit on their hands

The people of Gaza elected Hamas in 2006 and didn’t resist a year later when Hamas beat the rival Palestinian Authority in a brief war. They remained silent as Hamas dug more than 300 miles of tunnels, many of them under hospitals and schools to provide cover for Hamas fighters.

Published
April 13, 2024

Froma Harrop: Biden needs Haley’s voters more than Bernie’s

Biden needs to keep Democrats united as is politically doable while getting the never-Trump Republicans to actually cast a vote — if not whole-heartedly for him, at least for the democracy.
Published
April 12, 2024

Cal Thomas: Repeat, repeat, repeat

When it comes to the Middle East, repetition has been unsuccessful in causing Europeans and many in America to accept certain truths.
Published
April 11, 2024

Loring Danforth: English class the day before Eid

This important Muslim holiday would begin that very evening with the sighting of the new moon, the same moon that had just inspired thousands of people with the long thin shadow it cast across all of Maine and across the whole United States.
Published
April 10, 2024

Kathleen Meil: Time to clear the air: Why we must support LD 1215

By ending the sale of flavored tobacco products, we can take a stand against the tobacco industry's tactics to ensnare the next generation into nicotine addiction. Flavored tobacco is not a benign indulgence; it is a calculated marketing strategy to increase profits, while saddling young people with lifelong consequences to their health and well-being.
Published
April 7, 2024

Froma Harrop: Hillary was right the first time

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her use of the word "superpredators" back in 1996. Some on the left laid into her, accusing Clinton of racism.

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