It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead. — Bertholt Brecht, German poet and dramatist (1898-1956)

The FBI, trying to force Apple to break into its own protected software, wants the public to ignore its own failings and misstatements. There’s much more than antiterrorism involved in the attempt to crack a cellphone. After the December 2015 attack in San Bernardino, California, the two terrorists were quickly found and killed. One of […]

We as a society derided the Roman Catholic Church as an accessory to child sexual abuse, and we lambasted Penn State for similar offenses. Yet we as a society are complicit or passive in a similar way, by allowing a popular website called Backpage.com to be used to arrange child rape. Consider what happened to […]

Any gathering of Americans these days inevitably leads to a discussion of the Donald Trump phenomenon. Some Democrats threaten to move to Canada if Trump is elected. Reasonable Republicans just wince — or change the subject. How have we come to this point? Why has a divisive, bombastic, trash-talking, ethically-challenged, bottom feeding bully emerged as […]

Daylight Savings Time Daylight savings time, or summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that in the evening daylight is experienced one hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions with summer time adjust clocks forward on hour close to the start of spring and adjust […]

This being an election year, each political party is making a choice about its presidential candidate. Come November, Americans will make choices not only about our next President, but also about every member of the House of Representatives and 34 members of the Senate. A choice for a new Supreme Court Justice all lies ahead […]

A group of Midcoast women in their 60s, 70s and 80s from the group Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights met February 23 with some 30 student members of the Bowdoin College NARAL pro-choice group, to learn from each other how times have changed in reproductive health care since the days when the grandmothers were in their […]

Today is Friday, March 11, the 71st day of 2016. There are 295 days left in the year. On this date: In 1861, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was adopted by the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1865, during the Civil War, Union forces under General William T. Sherman occupied Fayetteville, […]