As Russia viciously bombed Ukrainian cities over Christmas and shot down an Azeri airliner with antiaircraft fire, it was hard to ignore the message from Moscow. A new foreign policy era has begun even before Donald Trump takes office. It will be quickly defined by how the president-elect deals with Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Opinion: Americans must hang tough in battle of fairness versus greed
Maine is at the forefront of the fight with its voter-approved decision to limit cash contributions to political action committees.
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Opinion: Romney’s exit marks an end to the bipartisanship Washington desperately needs
The departure of the former Massachusetts governor from public service is a significant blow to the political middle.
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Ray Vensel: Fairfield display, Nativity and the First Amendment
A Christian nativity display at a park in Fairfield raises questions about the wall of separation between church and state, Vensel writes.
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Douglas Rooks: Judicial ethics complaints can’t be ignored
Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court dilemma raises interesting questions about the ethics crisis engulfing the nation’s highest court, the columnist writes.
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Commentary: How our words about the Israel-Hamas war can add to hostilities — or help on a path to peace
The language people use to talk about the Israel-Hamas war has power: It can contribute to misunderstanding and alienation, but it can also bring about appreciation for concepts that can seem impossible during this kind of conflict, such as peace. I was born to a Palestinian Arab father and an Israeli Jewish mother — a […]
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Opinion: How to stay in the moment — even when it feels like end times
Jesus, often pitched as the antidote to our anxieties, also makes a compelling case for embracing our fear.
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Commentary: Sure, people made fun of Jimmy Carter. I was lucky to have Jimmy Carter make fun of me
Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, is the first presidential candidate I remember publicly expressing an opinion of. As it turned out, Carter would also be the first (and only) president to publicly express an opinion of me. During Carter’s presidency he was criticized and lampooned, but during his life he was more often hailed for […]
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Commentary: History gets Jimmy Carter wrong, both underrated and overrated
In the lives of public figures a tale often takes hold and that narrative becomes their story. In the case of Jimmy Carter, it goes like this: A humble peanut farmer and former Georgia governor defies extraordinary odds and wins the White House, through a combination of virtue, decency and a post-Watergate political cleansing. Over […]
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Commentary: Listening in a time of disinformation
The very fabric of truth is unraveling at an alarming rate. Howard Thurman’s wisdom about listening for the sound of the genuine is not just relevant but urgent. In the face of the escalating crisis of disinformation, distortion and the unsettling normalization of immoral and unethical practices, particularly in electoral politics and executive leadership, the […]