GOP lawmakers propose a bill that supposedly seeks to stop the press from destroying a person’s reputation.
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Androscoggin commissioner needs to learn more about science and the law
Androscoggin County Commissioner Isaiah Lary can’t pretend that his personal take on science and the law gives him a free pass to act as he wishes.
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Angus King shows the way politicians should be
As I watched Jon Wertheim’s Jan. 10 interview of Maine’s junior Sen. Angus King on the iconic CBS television program “60 Minutes,” I felt my pulse and respiration rate slow and a sense of serenity come over me. That’s how you’re supposed to feel after a yoga session, not after listening to a politician speak. […]
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The ‘stolen election’ myth is powerful enough to keep Trump in power
We should never underestimate the power of a political myth, artfully contrived and relentlessly repeated, to alter the course of history. Donald Trump’s myth, that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden because it was “stolen” — like the myth that Germany lost World War I because it was “stabbed in the back” […]
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‘Hey, Hey, Donald J., how many did you infect today?’
President Donald Trump seems to be using the Vietnam War playbook in dealing the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Maine deserves a serious debate on climate change in the U.S. Senate race
With much of America’s West Coast burning and Southeast Coast flooding, it’s amazing that the subject of climate change has barely been mentioned in the Susan Collins-Sarah Gideon Senatorial slugfest. Instead, Mainers have been treated to a nightly barrage of dueling television ads in which Collins and Gideon have attacked one another for every real […]
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Jesus would have protected his flock from the coronavirus
I can’t fathom the thinking of Pastor Todd Bell, the spiritual leader of the Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford, who believes that emergency COVID-19 public health rules limiting religious gatherings are part of a plot to thwart the spread of the Gospel. If anything, these guidelines, by helping to stem the spread of a deadly […]
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Black people have been waiting too long for equal protection under the law
Outbreaks of violence during the past month amid street protests in Portland, Oregon, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Rochester, New York, reflect the anger of some African-Americans over the disproportionate use of lethal force by police against Black people. But the feeling of most African-Americans seems to be more akin to bone-weariness, borne of more than a […]
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The undeniable reality of systemic racism in America
Many white Americans don’t have the experiences that allow them to readily believe the evidence.
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Elliott Epstein: By suspending his campaign, Bernie Sanders avoids a train wreck
On Wednesday, Bernie Sanders announced he was suspending his campaign for the presidency, finally acknowledging that winning the Democratic nomination would be virtually impossible. An improbable candidate, the 78-year-old maverick, with his pugnacious style, irascible personality, unkempt appearance, and Brooklyn accent as thick as a New York cheese cake, has certainly enlivened the 2020 (and […]