The last two Republican presidents — George W. Bush and the current occupant of the White House — have down four things: cut taxes for the morbidly wealthy; blow our country’s debt into the stratosphere with the same unnecessary tax cuts for people who don’t need them; start a completely unnecessary and insanely expensive war in the […]

Arguably, President Trump is the most corrupt president in U.S. history. He certainly is the most corrupt president in my 74 years. In addition to his sale of White House memorabilia, his cryptocurrency corruption, his “reallocation” of $1.25 billion of our money for his Board of Peace, the “pay to play” oligarchs who surround him, […]

Why is Sen. Susan Collins so silent? President Trump has established an unconstitutional slush fund to pay supporters; he takes gifts from Qataris and others; he has enriched himself by $4 billion; he enables his sons and son-in-law to profit on government contracts; he obstructs the release of the full Epstein file trove as required by […]

As a longtime Mainer, I have become increasingly discouraged watching what has happened to the Republican Party and to many elected officials who once claimed to value institutional integrity, accountability and independent leadership. What concerns me most is not only President Trump’s behavior, but how normalized so much of it has become within today’s political […]

Our president is so convinced that the world is a brutal and dangerous place that he is creating that very world. He is so convinced everyone is out to get him that he is out to get them first. He is paranoid and narcissistic and acts with delusions of grandeur. The creation by the Justice […]

Regarding the recent news report — “Bath Iron Works awarded contract to build a new destroyer” (May 7) — it will be a good day when a headline talks of “creating” instead of destroying. Leonard ShamesBrunswick