It’s an election year, which means we’ll be hearing a lot from both Democrats and Republicans claiming that their party is the one true champion of working-class Americans. Sure, but what does it mean to be part of the working class in America these days? It means being female. If there’s one statistic that describes […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: Extreme heat is making our mental health worse
On July 22, planet Earth achieved a terrifying milestone: Global temperatures reached their highest level in recorded history, breaking a record set just one day before. This year is expected to be the hottest in centuries. Heat waves are hotter, longer and more frequent than they were in the 1960s. By now, most of us […]
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Opinion: Confirm Stacey Neumann to be a District of Maine judge
Her strong record means should earn a prompt confirmation.
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Commentary: The Olympics promise to be socially responsible. How’s that working out?
Olympic host cities make promises that are all but impossible to keep, and in recent years, the organizers’ wishful thinking about housing and neighborhood redevelopment has been one of the cruelest Olympic disappointments. With the 2024 Paris Games, we are seeing it all over again — displacement, gentrification and the unhoused “voluntarily” lured elsewhere with […]
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Opinion: Three cheers for a TV show about something
For two hours each week, ‘America’s Got Talent’ removes us from the confines of the box in which we sometimes find ourselves.
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Opinion: Behold our latest ‘American Crisis’
The question is: Are we going to let this happen?
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Hilary Koch: ‘We rise together, or we fall apart’
True to his colors, Trump immediately backtracked on his words of unity. Can Kamala Harris offer the leadership the country needs?
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Opinion: It is violent to deny reproductive rights
Neither lawmakers nor the media pay enough attention to the troubling ramifications of limiting abortion access.
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Commentary: Global heating is no longer a tomorrow problem. It’s today’s
For decades, global warming was widely seen as a tomorrow problem, something for our hapless grandchildren to worry about. But with heat records tumbling relentlessly, it’s becoming clear that tomorrow has basically arrived. We are the hapless grandchildren. And it’s also becoming clear that we’re not ready for the heat. Monday was the hottest day […]
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Commentary: A messaging mess for Democrats — 3 dumb arguments so far about Trump, Harris, Biden
Two days into the reshaped presidential race, we have a sense of Democrats’ initial attempts to define the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The messaging is not impressive. Three prominent arguments so far are a stretch at best and downright fantasy at worst. Let’s take a look. Biden is a great president and […]