Bob Neal: The Countryman: For these I give thanks

Columns & Analysis

Published
November 19, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: For these I give thanks

I ran for the Maine House of Representatives. Though I lost, I found a great deal along the campaign trail for which to be thankful in this season of gratefulness and gluttony.
Published
November 18, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: A few words on the silence

Election denial having proven itself a losing strategy, these deniers abruptly decide to impersonate adults. Suddenly, they have nothing to say. Suddenly, they fall silent. Maybe we should thank them for small favors.
Published
November 18, 2022

Rich Lowry: Don’t count Trump out yet

Any Donald Trump political obituaries are premature ... until a verdict has been reached by the force that has buoyed him and lent him his overwhelming power in the GOP politics — Republican voters.
Published
November 16, 2022

Cal Thomas: Toxic Trump must leave the stage

Living in the past is for losers, and Trump is the greatest loser.
Published
November 16, 2022

Froma Harrop: They voted big ‘D’ democrats to save small ‘d’ democracy

Americans had a much bigger concern. They saw democracy with a small "d" in peril and concluded that the big "D" politicians, Democrats, would stave off disaster. That's why every election-denying Republican running to oversee elections in swing states lost.

Published
November 14, 2022

We may be watching Twitter implode in real time

By cutting much of the company's ad team, Elon Musk has ended the all-important personal relationships that its executives had with big brands. A misconception about online advertising is that the entire business is driven by algorithms and programmatic auctions run by machines. That's not the case.
Published
November 14, 2022

Harry Truman illuminates why Trump having classified documents is illegal

The rise of the modern surveillance state and Watergate, prodded Congress into amending the Federal Records Act several times, however, and passing the Presidential Records Act in 1977. This law gave authority over presidential records to the National Archives and Records Administration, which became its own independent agency in 1984.
Published
November 13, 2022

Lucy Sherman: Twin Cities embrace public art, artist Hugh Lassen

If there is one thing I learned last summer as I lived and worked in Lewiston, it is that this city is dedicated to the public arts and sees legitimate value in the unexpected encounters of a mural, a series of photographs along the road, or sculptures that either light up, rattle, or linger peacefully.
Published
November 13, 2022

Cal Thomas: A ‘sure thing’ election that wasn’t

People who are happy or breathing easier because of the outcome of this election now own its consequences. Inflation, high gas and food prices, and an open border are likely to continue. Republicans have a lot of work to do to change voter attitudes.
Published
November 12, 2022

Bob Neal, The Countryman: As I was saying . . .

I knocked on 3,500 doors, spoke with 1,300 people and left a flier at every house. I used two pounds of elastics to hang fliers on door knobs. I had never known how many elastics are in a pound. By the end, my age was telling.

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