In his Nov. 18 column defending the Electoral College as it now exists, M.D. Harmon advocates, in effect, special protection for a small minority of Americans against what he sees as possible majority tyranny. The minority he regards as needing special protection is the population of small states with, perhaps not surprisingly, mostly white people. […]

I hope that Susan Collins and fellow Republicans will seriously consider Donald Trump’s call for stripping citizenship from anyone who burns a flag. As an older citizen, I can’t emigrate very easily without political refugee status. I have no personal desire to burn a flag, but losing my citizenship would afford me, and many other […]

An opportunity exists for President Obama and others to halt the confrontation at Standing Rock before it gets out of hand. Native Americans have been badly treated and lied to by the U.S. Treaties have been violated or simply ignored, since the first accord was consummated 250 years ago. The Dakota Sioux have every reason […]