Here’s how I define unnerving times: When professionals who write, draw or talk about current events for a living worry that if they dare create anything satiric, mocking or funny, they’ll be laid off, shut down, let go or put through the wringer. America’s — and the world’s — increasing inability to tolerate irony, dissonance […]
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Compass: Belonging in the Belgrades
It doesn’t take long for the lakes to feel like home.
Douglas Rooks: Is Maine experiencing a Dirigo moment?
The state is making a case for well-run government.
George Smith: When we lost Letourneau
The columnist brought the Maine wilderness alive every morning in the newspaper.
Maine Voices: ‘Comprehensive immigration reform’ won’t resolve migrant crisis
The best way to deal with the surge is to require asylum seekers to apply from home or a third country, not at the border.
Another View: Electric cars vs. climate change
The Heritage Foundation recently wrote a misleading column to undermine government support for electric vehicles. The column says that extending the $7,000 federal electric vehicle tax credit for 10 more years would cost taxpayers a “massively expensive” $16 billion, a drop in the hat as compared with fossil fuel subsidies. A recent Forbes article states […]
Maine Voices: Death with dignity gives patients the opportunity to end life on their own terms
Relieving personal suffering shouldn’t entail the risk of prolonging it.
Commentary: Democratic debate further revealed single-payer minefield
The Affordable Care Act would not have made it through Congress had Democrats not conceded to Republicans on two polarizing points: No federal taxpayer dollars could be spent either on abortions or on insurance for immigrants living in the country illegally. On a debate stage occupied only by would-be Democratic presidential candidates, however, no such […]
Trudy Rubin: The Trump-Putin show at G-20 undermines liberal democracy
President Donald Trump got trolled by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 world leaders summit in Osaka. He was having so much fun joking with Vladimir, he seemed blissfully unaware. Just prior to the summit, Putin gave an interview to the Financial Times in which he laid out his belief that the […]
Maine Voices: Why criticizing Trump doesn’t convince his supporters to abandon their man
Devotion to the president is a religion, and you can’t talk people out of faith.