Mike Seavey: Faith communities must stand with working people

Columns & Analysis

Published
August 28, 2022

Mike Seavey: Faith communities must stand with working people

Faith communities and faith leaders have courageously stood with Maine families during these past years of COVID pandemic. We need Maine faith communities to walk with Maine workers in recognizing workers’ rights and once again making economics a centerpiece of a moral horizon.
Published
August 27, 2022

Rich Lowry: Biden’s student debt debacle

Student debt has been the obsession of Biden and his supporters. They deny it, of course, but their focus reflects a deeply held, profoundly insulting assumption that those who have earned university degrees are more valuable and worthy than all those Americans who haven't.
Published
August 24, 2022

Cal Thomas: Guns of Washington

The buildup of weapons, the proliferation of cameras, the increasing fear among some that our government is no longer on "our side" reminds me of the lyric from a song by The Police: "Every move you make, every breath you take I'll be watching you."
Published
August 22, 2022

A new bra reveals that the military is moving toward gender equality

In 1957, the Yokohama "Battle of the Bulge" focused on bras as something that would help keep servicewomen looking good. Today, military leaders' attention to servicewomen's undergarments reflects a new focus on making sure all members of the nation's defense team are ready. It's a recognition that readiness can look different for men and women, even while acknowledging that gender should not be the main determinant of a service member's role.
Published
August 22, 2022

This economy is proving too hard for economists

The broad economic slowdown we are experiencing is likely nothing more than a pullback from the artificially induced sharp recovery from the lockdowns. It may not fit the model of a conventional business cycle, but once you accept that this is not a normal business cycle and view the data through a different lens, then the unexpected begins to make sense and not something to be dismissed as "noise."

Published
August 21, 2022

Rich Lowry: No, Liz Cheney isn’t Abraham Lincoln

Although he had firm principles, Lincoln was always a political pragmatist and fundamentally a party man willing to maneuver as necessary. Cheney's post-Jan. 6 approach bears less resemblance to Lincoln's than to that of William Lloyd Garrison, the uncompromising abolitionist publisher who took unabashedly radical and unpopular positions and expected the world to move toward him.
Published
August 21, 2022

Paul Mills: How Maine selects justices, the nation could too

A look at how Maine has attempted to rule the composition of its own crucial third branch of government may offer a guide to how the national dilemma might be confronted.
Published
August 21, 2022

Cal Thomas: Inflation reduction act won’t

More spending, as in "The Inflation Reduction Act," won't reduce inflation, any more than drinking more alcohol leads to sobriety. But when Democrats are drunk on spending and power and too many Americans have an entitlement mentality, it doesn't appear either side is prepared to go cold turkey when it comes to spending.
Published
August 21, 2022

Froma Harrop: What about embryos?

Fertility clinics discard thousands upon thousands of abandoned embryos every year. That's because a single round of in vitro fertilization treatment typically involves collecting 10 or more eggs with only one or two being implanted in the mother. Many countries actually require that these surplus embryos be destroyed after a certain period.
Published
August 20, 2022

Froma Harrop: The credit for electric cars is unusually well crafted

It isn't true that the new subsidies for buying electric vehicles will only benefit the rich. Even if it were, I wouldn't care.

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