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  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Published
    April 7, 2024

    John Bolduc: Action needed to preserve access to long-term care in Maine

    We cannot afford to stand idly by as nursing homes and residential care facilities vanish from our communities. The Legislature must take immediate action by increasing MaineCare reimbursement rates and providing sustained funding to address this crisis. With federal matching funds available, there is an opportunity to leverage resources and safeguard the future of long-term care in Maine.

  • Published
    April 7, 2024

    Rich Lowry: The Bible is America’s book

    The fact is that selling Bibles is a very American venture, and the Bible, particularly the King James Version endorsed by Donald Trump, is a very American book, in fact the American book.