For all the rose-tinted sentimentality, standards of living were markedly lower in the 1950s than they are today, and the system was riddled with vast injustice and inequality. Read More
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Obviously, the injustices are more blatant and extreme in Egypt than they are in France, but they are not really very different and the young know it. Read More
Daylight Saving Time. Read More
To no one's surprise, Pelosi's and Amash's words could not pierce the partisan armor and shield of willful ignorance erected by House Republicans. Read More
McCarthyism was on bold display last week as President Donald Trump's right-wing media posse went on the attack against Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified in the House impeachment inquiry. Read More
First and foremost, we need to come together as communities and confront the stigma associated with substance use disorder. Read More
What does the DC Comics film "Joker" have to do with early childhood mental health? In a word: everything. Read More
Climate dining. Read More
One of the best ways to counter misleading and false information online doesn’t rest in policies developed in Silicon Valley. Instead, it rests in the awareness and digital literacy of the people using those platforms. Read More
Half of Title X patients are people of color and the Trump-Pence administration just made it harder for them to get the very care that could save their lives. Read More
Letters to the editor for Saturday, November 2, 2019: Response to Emanuel OpEd, geography problems, canaries in the coal mine. Read More
We have fallen far indeed, and the voice of Vladimir Bukovsky will always be with us to hold up the mirror of history to anyone proclaiming the need to find common ground with dictators. Read More
Before President Trump, three of the previous 44 presidents faced impeachment and possible removal from office. Mainers played key roles in all three cases. When the U.S. was still a century and a half in the future, a classic case of impeachment occurred in England. It… Read More
It should have been a great, unifying celebration for Americans. Read More
Presidential award. Read More
Both government spending and tax cuts are contributing to the problem. Read More
In Donald Trump's America, it seems that anyone who speaks against the president, even if they are speaking for their country, will be accused of treachery. Read More
Every Maine municipality is affected. Read More
Letters to the editor for Friday, Nov. 1, 2019: Saving the newspapers, protect American wildlife, repeal 2002 military force authorization. Read More
There's a long history of fans booing politicians at ballgames, and letting the president know that they don't like him is as American as, well, baseball. But Trump's opponents also loudly chanted "Lock him up!" That's not so good. Read More
