As a recent college graduate, I am watching the demands for a living wage grow, and I know that my peers and I have something deep at stake. The student debt crisis speaks to this. But low wages are not reserved for fresh-out-of-college kids trying to get their foot in the labor-force door. This myth […]

I’ve been incubating a thought about the interview with Mike Michaud that appeared in the Portland Press Herald on Dec. 24 (“Mike Michaud reflects on loss, strategy, Eliot Cutler”). The incubation ended when a letter to the editor (“Michaud’s cooperation with Cutler should spark alarm,” Dec. 29) indicated alarm, surprise and disappointment that two politicians […]

I’m sure that the senator who detailed the CIA torture tactics at Guantanamo Bay never pledged a college fraternity. During Hell Week, we were kept awake for 72 hours while working hard and enduring periodic hazing. Being kept awake all night with loud rock music was a routine occurrence at the house. The terrorists were […]

Why is justice so unevenly applied in our country? Bankers’ crimes of greed are defended and swept under the rug. Police filmed breaking their own laws and killing people are not even indicted. And CIA agents of our government are proven to aggressively break the laws of our land and torture people (who, in many […]