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Op-Eds, Opinion

The Maine Millennial: You think queerness is a fad? Think again.

by Victoria Hugo-Vidal June 25, 2023June 24, 2023

I’m more and more proud of the bravery and grit of my lesbian grandmothers.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: Remembering – and retelling – my father’s account of Buchenwald in 1945

by Don Hoenig May 14, 2023May 12, 2023

How can we ensure that future generations respect and honor Holocaust survivors’ and witnesses’ memories?

Op-Eds, Opinion

Maine Voices: Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his teachings still ring true

by Irv Williams April 5, 2023April 4, 2023

Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating death in Memphis vindicates Dr. King’s 1964 warning about the risks to the lives of Black people at the hands of police.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Maine Voices: Putin’s war in Ukraine requires us to maintain a difficult balance

by Robert Sessums March 3, 2023March 2, 2023

We must continue to fight and to resist domination, at the same time that we keep seeking an alternative to arms and to annihilating one another.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Maine Voices: I am grateful to you, Jimmy Carter, for being my role model

by Shoshana Hoose February 23, 2023February 22, 2023

You have lived your ideals and made a real difference in the world, holding on to hope even as some of your biggest accomplishments have been dismantled.

Editorials, Opinion

Our View: Dr. King’s legacy must be honored on a daily basis

by The Editorial Board January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

Beware the chasm between real steps toward racial equity and false steps. After that, beware the racist response to those steps.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

New biography of Jefferson makes this case: To know the man, read his writing

by Frank Freeman December 18, 2022December 17, 2022

‘His Masterly Pen’ tackles head-on one of the former president’s central contradictions: How could he declare that all men are created equal and that slavery is immoral and still be a slaveholder?