Sam Boss: Bates union organizers persevered, despite admin’s opposition

Like many of my former colleagues at Bates College, I was disappointed by the results of the recent union election. I was also disappointed with the reporting on those results in the Sun Journal, which surmised that the outcome showed that staff were “generally satisfied with the way Bates treats them.” A more accurate assessment […]

Clarence Page: Equal justice, even for Donald Trump and other suspects

The stress test to which the former president has put our criminal justice system offers a valuable opportunity to view fairness in our system with new eyes.

Editorial cartoon for Tuesday, April 4

Rich Lowry: Don’t valorize January 6

For Donald Trump, a master at appropriating the catch lines and attacks of the other side, reversing the meaning of Jan. 6 would be his most audacious move yet. How long is it before that day becomes “the perfect protest?”

Michael Boom: Social Security’s future depends on society doing the right thing

The future of Social Security depends on society as a whole entity, doing the right thing in order to ensure balance and a possibility of having a future as a legacy for our children. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. You can buy your kids books and send […]

Clarence Page: Don’t let press freedom die in the ‘Sunshine State,’ or anywhere else

Amid his culture war campaign against “woke” liberals, critical race theory and other bugaboos of the political right, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken his ongoing culture war to an old, reliable political enemy — the media.

Tom Putnam: Facing the earth’s fragilities and our own — we pause before spring

Maybe by setting aside certain days each year to pause and consider who we are and where we are going, we better equip ourselves to carry our lives forward, planting seeds for a new course while the world slowly settles around us.

Austin Bay: The Finns are ready to deter Russia

No matter how the Ukraine War ends, the Finnish border is now a NATO border, and it presents the Kremlin with very complicated military problems — the kind of complicated problems that should deter future Kremlin adventurism.

Froma Harrop: Guns kill people. Zombie politicians see to it

There’s no making moral sense of the political zombies who take orders from the National Rifle Association.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, April 2