Bob Neal: The Countryman: What can we learn from the past?

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Published
December 17, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: What can we learn from the past?

Events this year in Maine and Florida may ensure that young people coming up will repeat the past rather than learn from it. The good and the bad of it.
Published
December 17, 2022

Dr. Edward Walworth: School shootings in Maine?

On Nov. 15, a series of calls were made to several schools across the state, from Sanford to Brewer. The dispatchers soon realized that the claims of active shooters were false, but not before there were lockdowns, armed police searching school hallways, and fearful texts from students to parents.
Published
December 15, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Good night, everybody!

I’ve written about 1.6 million words as a columnist. This 600 or so will be the last.
Published
December 14, 2022

Cal Thomas: Sinema departs the Democratic Party

Good luck Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in your efforts to combat extremism. Your challenge will be less defining what is extreme and more defining what is normal.
Published
December 14, 2022

Froma Harrop: Sinema needs to be always in our face

We can't discuss Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's need to hog everyone's attention by dressing in clown outfits? Here's news for defenders of Sinema's sartorial disrespect for the political process: We can.

Published
December 12, 2022

A year in the war that’s killing Putin’s lies

For my part, after almost a year of living this war and feeling it in my bones every day, even from afar, I still cannot come to terms with the deaths of people I knew, the ripping pain of dislocation, the horror my country has wrought on a nation more closely related to Russia than almost any other.
Published
December 12, 2022

Mass long-COVID disability threatens the economy

Almost a quarter of U.S. private-sector workers can't take any paid sick days. More than half have no access to short-term disability insurance, and those that do must fight to get long-COVID claims approved.
Published
December 12, 2022

Democrats now govern more Americans at the state level than Republicans

The total population of the states with Democratic trifectas will now be north of 140 million (about 42 percent of all Americans) compared with about 131 million for Republicans (39 percent). That's an improvement on Democrats' pre-election deficit of 138 million to 115 million.
Published
December 11, 2022

Froma Harrop: Democrats are learning how to win

In changing the nominating process for president, Democrats are becoming more democratic. They are also growing smarter and may reclaim many voters they lost.
Published
December 11, 2022

Rich Lowry: The spies who deserve to be out in the cold

These former intelligence officials knew what they were doing, traded on their public service for a tawdry political purpose, and have by and large demonstrated no remorse.

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