Space Force Directive. Read More
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The administration’s immigration policy. Read More
The plight of children stolen from their parents at the border has generated a national moment of outrage. Read More
Federal law favors keeping families together and placing foster children in family homes are small while LePage is pushing for the opposite. Read More
Our publicly accessible information for accountability has come under threat in the last few years. Read More
The sad fact is that millions of Americans will take whatever Trump says about it as gospel. Read More
Eight million Yemenis are on the edge of famine. It may have claimed the lives of 50,000 children already. Read More
Lawmakers have a lot to accomplish when the return to Augusta this week. Rolling back the minimum wage should not be on the agenda. Read More
Multisystemic therapy, when a therapist works with people in a young person’s life to learn how to support him or her, has been shown to reduce criminal behavior, substance use, aggression and school absences. Read More
Collins says she doesn't like what's happening but she doesn't support the focused bill, written by Sen. Feinstein, that would stop it. Read More
The third post for Stirring the Pot in August 2015 was titled Class Warfare and dealt with the problem of inequality in the United States. It is an issue that I have returned to several times since. Inequality continues to erode the social fabric of this nation… Read More
Most troubling is the inherent lack of empathy — as policy — and what that not only reveals but possibly foreshadows Read More
Before last week, U.S. law recognized that women who could not leave their marriages and suffered grave harm as a result qualified, under some circumstances, for asylum. Read More
Can we not as a nation find a kinder, more compassionate and more moral answer to this current crisis? I, for one, believe we can. Read More
The U.S.-North Korean relationship is heading for a state of mutual deterrence, because it is the only one that reality permits. Read More
Abortion has been and will always be essential health care. Read More
Letting contestants don the bikini was inherently feminist because women made that choice for themselves. Read More
Our elders are the people that helped create the world that this generation now lives in. Read More
We are vastly stronger with capable allies who believe in us, and Trump’s careless and thoughtless dismissal of an important NATO ally will hurt us. Read More
Happy Father’s Day. Read More
Instead of just declaring “F—- Trump” from the stage, perhaps De Niro and those like him could climb down and do something about it. Read More
How far this hypocrisy will extend is anybody’s guess. I keep looking for that line in the sand beyond which evangelicals will not walk; I have not found it and don’t see one close at hand. I am beginning to doubt it exists. Read More
We don't have to wonder what the reaction would have been to Obama doing such things, because we know what happened when he even floated the idea. Read More
Mary Mayhew seemed like the LePage administration gubernatorial pick – way back when…what happened?… Read More
That is no small accomplishment this year, because Moody had some very difficult competition. Read More
Just like roads and bridges, Maine’s public universities are critical public infrastructure essential to the state’s economic prosperity. Read More
And – let’s just be clear – that’s not a big deal. Read More
The Made-For-TV Summit. Read More
President Donald Trump is playing chicken with the Constitution. Read More
But it will require the president to stand up to big pharma. Read More
Whomever is the Democratic nominee can set the campaign contrast by standing for standing up against policies that help big banks and hurt Mainers’ health care, and for the rule of the law and checks and balances. Read More
