Doug Rawlings: The Doomsday Clock is still ticking

Let us gather together as citizens living in a democracy and take responsibility for how we spend our time. The Doomsday Clock is an excellent way to measure that phenomenon as long as we don’t fall into the trap of helpless, hopeless despair.

Austin Bay: The Biden classified docs special prosecutor must look for Chinese spies

Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, appointed by the Department of Justice to investigate President Biden’s criminality, must expand his investigation to include potential Chinese Communist Party espionage. If Hur fails to do so, he becomes a national security liability.

Froma Harrop: Population shouldn’t be a Ponzi scheme

The idea that prosperity must rely on strong population growth is greatly exaggerated. At bottom, it’s a kind of demographic Ponzi scheme, whereby the success of a society is fostered by an ever-larger younger generation supporting the smaller one before.

Cal Thomas: The other side of fame

Once you have attained fame you can never live as normal people do. Strangers want to approach you, some with good motives, some bad. The famous need security, locked gates, unlisted telephone numbers and people around to protect them and feed their egos.

Rich Lowry: The Trump-Biden embrace

Despite their enmity, both men want and need each other politically, whether that’s what the country is interested in or deserves, or not.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, Jan. 22

Mark Wood: Clarification needed on county expenditures for unhoused

According to this paper, “Hope for the unhoused: Androscoggin County funds overnight warming shelter” (Jan. 19), our county commissioners unanimously approved $297,680 for a warming center at the Calvary Methodist Church in Lewiston for the next 13 weeks. This center will be available from midnight to 8 a.m., seven days a week, a total of […]

Pamela Larouche: Send more specific development questions to Auburn planners

The Auburn Planning Board held a meeting Jan. 3 in which residents of East Auburn presented a petition against further development of their neighborhood. Other Auburn neighborhoods with other residents have submitted other petitions and concerns about Auburn’s radical zoning changes — all to no avail. The Planning Board suggested a survey of East Auburn […]

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Biden: Two years and counting

Today is the 731st, or middle, day of Biden’s 1,431-day term, an apt day for assessment. The word that comes to mind is mixed.

Rich Lowry: No, you can’t believe ‘the science’

This faux science is not dispassionate but fired by a great moral certainty. It is not open to counter arguments and different interpretations but insists on only one answer to complicated or ambiguous questions. It is not rigorously neutral but aims to achieve cherished political goals.