Héritier Nosso: Immigrant community networks have positive benefits for communities

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Published
October 23, 2022

Héritier Nosso: Immigrant community networks have positive benefits for communities

New arrivals do require Mainers to make a small investment. But the returns make this whole community stronger and better.
Published
October 23, 2022

Austin Bay: Robot War: Drone versus drone over Ukraine

The Russia-Ukraine war has witnessed a noteworthy combat first: Russian and Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) dueling in the skies.
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October 23, 2022

Cal Thomas: Biden’s cynical new border policy

President Biden's cynical response to the border crisis by ordering out single male Venezuelans will not stop migrants coming from 40 other countries.
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October 23, 2022

Froma Harrop: The Russian Fatherland is losing the fathers

Even before its invasion of Ukraine, Russia was facing a collapse in population as fertility rates cratered. Among Vladimir Putin's delusions was the belief that his government could encourage more births and at the same time send potential fathers to the frontlines as cannon fodder.
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October 23, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: If Republicans couldn’t cheat, they couldn’t win

My only object here is to express the exhausted frustration one feels as an African American with people constantly asking you to “prove” racism to them — like it’s some UFO hoax, like you’re an unreliable witness to your own experience, like you don’t know what you know, haven’t seen what you’ve seen or lived what you’ve lived. It’s a recurring theme. Someone always seems ready to inform us that what seems terrible, really isn’t.

Published
October 22, 2022

Froma Harrop: Election-denying veterans are unusually dishonorable

Veterans used to be widely regarded as model candidates for their tendency toward bipartisanship and preference for just getting things done. Some still are. But there's now a breed of veteran candidate who has gone beyond a healthy skepticism of military interventions and sees himself as a foot soldier in the far right's efforts to overthrow the democracy.
Published
October 22, 2022

Mike Richard: Moving on from Walton Field will be bittersweet

Friday, Oct. 28, will be the final football game Edward Little plays at Walton Field.
Published
October 20, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: You don’t treat a human being like this

The killing of Craig Ridley is a reminder that luxuriant cruelty carries a price beyond that paid by the victim. In what sort of civilized society, after all, do people walk past a paralyzed man begging for help?
Published
October 20, 2022

Rich Lowry: Biden deserves what he’s going to get on the economy

If President Biden is offering poor explanations for poor results, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what he says. No presidential statement can compete with declining real wages and steeply increasing food costs.
Published
October 19, 2022

Cal Thomas: Justice denied in Parkland killings

One of the several definitions of "justice" is "the administering of deserved punishment or reward." If Nikolas Cruz did not deserve having his life taken from him because he robbed 17 others of theirs, what crime would fit the definition?

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