We’ve reached a cruel new phase in the U.S. government’s war on immigrants without papers. And it should disturb you no matter what your views on immigration. When undocumented immigrant families are detained, they are being increasingly split up. Not only are whole families being rounded up, but parents are being detained separately from their […]

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. — John Maynard Keynes, British economist (1883-1946)

In what has become a distressingly perennial event, Lewiston’s conservative political establishment is once again in the news for using its resources to confuse, intimidate, and suppress young and new voters. Last week, over 200 recently registered voters in Lewiston, roughly a third of whom are students at Bates College, received an official letter from […]

It’s interesting how Trump’s tariff proposal has opponents screaming it’s the end of the world.” Granted, I’m no proponent for a trade war. China can win by oppressing their citizens into mud hovels, forcing them into slave labor with little recourse. That won’t happen in America, where citizens protest peacefully without fear of being mowed […]