Froma Harrop: Paying more for gas is the least we can do

Columns & Analysis

Published
March 13, 2022

Froma Harrop: Paying more for gas is the least we can do

Set aside the moral and human catastrophe of Russia's savaging a peaceful country. Ukrainians are suffering to preserve not only their democracy but ours. And so paying more for gas is the least Americans can do to help them. To our credit, most Americans are OK with it.
Published
March 12, 2022

Froma Harrop: Stupidity will live on in infamy

Right after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt went on radio to call Dec. 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." The stupidity behind calling Vladimir Putin a "genius" with good reasons to launch an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine will also live in infamy.
Published
March 12, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: A new place for Maine’s ‘placed’ people

I won't repeat the litany of loss in rural Maine, but we have renewable resources here, and we have people who know how to use the resources. We need ideas to make those resources work for rural Maine.
Published
March 12, 2022

Rich Lowry: What Putin knew

Russia has long been a major supplier of energy to Europe. The depletion of European natural gas reserves has played a role in Russia's increased significance.
Published
March 12, 2022

Austin Bay: Independent entrepreneurs and industrialists act to defend Ukraine

Driven by insight and often sheer genius, entrepreneurs and inventors create and act, sometimes years before markets demand their services and inventions.

Published
March 10, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: People’s Convoy driving around in circles

One would happily trade the thousand drivers of the “People’s Convoy” for one Vadim Pashkiuskiy. In the name of freedom, he’s driving his truck into a war zone. Meantime, they’re driving theirs in circles.
Published
March 9, 2022

Cal Thomas: What is America’s foreign policy?

If we can do little beyond sanctions against nations that have nuclear weapons this will signal to those who have them — and those planning to acquire them — that they have little to fear from America should they proceed with invading Taiwan (China) or attacking Israel (Iran).
Published
March 7, 2022

Freezing the clock: Nationwide push for permanent daylight saving time gains momentum

Polling shows Americans widely detest the practice: 75 percent would prefer to end it, according to an October poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Yet people are divided — and passionately so — about whether the country should have an early sunrise or a late sunset.
Published
March 7, 2022

Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?

"They are the holy grail for convenience," says Jeni Stolow, a social behavioral scientist and assistant professor at the Temple University college of public health. "It's someone's whole world in the palm of the hand. That is really appealing because it can make people feel in control at all times."
Published
March 6, 2022

Elliott Epstein: St. Joseph’s will become a brewpub and continue to be a landmark

We’ve lost a number of prominent historic landmarks to demolition or arson. Thankfully we don't have to lose another because we need more parking.

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