Ronald Silver II, a sanitation worker in Baltimore, won’t be spending this Labor Day weekend with his family. On Aug. 2, during a sweltering 100-degree heatwave, Silver died while working a shift in a city garbage truck. His death was preventable. In July, following worker complaints, Baltimore’s inspector general reviewed conditions in the city’s Department […]

More must be done to reduce drug-related fatalities in Maine.

In an election cycle that can only be described as stranger than fiction, things have just gotten impossibly weirder. Longtime Democrat-turned-independent candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the race and endorsed none other than Donald Trump. The move wasn’t totally unexpected; both campaigns have been hinting at it for days, and […]

The mood in humanities departments has become increasingly dire. While the crisis is real, I don’t think the fatalism is warranted.  

The people sharing the road with you are someone’s grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, sons and daughters.