School-choice lotteries can prevent patterns of segregation. In order to get to the root of our prejudice, however, we need to go deeper.
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Commentary: School districts can take action in the wake of Lewiston shootings
Anonymous tip lines can empower students to report concerns and keep one another safe.
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A letter from the publisher: There is still so much to be thankful for
Dear reader, “Mainers to Be Thankful For” is one of my favorite annual features. I hope you have a chance to enjoy this year’s selection of people who make our lives brighter and our communities stronger – people like Janice Sweeney of Jay, who started her lifetime of community service working at the snack shack […]
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Maine Voices: Trump is a threat to our nation. Time for our senators to take a stand.
The risk of a second Trump presidency should be alarming enough to spur Sens. Collins and King into vocal opposition.
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Commentary: Why Democrats are ride or die for another Biden term
Potential challengers understand that fracturing the Democratic Party in 2024 would presage the breaking of American democracy thereafter.
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Jim Fossel: We need an independent audit of child protection in Maine
We’re not doing nearly enough to keep children in our state safe.
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The Maine Millennial: RIP to a very good cat
Juno was genial with people and other animals to the end.
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Commentary: Send America’s floating hospitals to Gaza
We should not miss an opportunity to provide significant humanitarian and medical aid during a cruel and terrible conflict.
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Commentary: How the Lewiston shootings transformed my worldview
For a time, I thought mass shootings were somebody else’s problem.
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Commentary: Here’s what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide
Gaza now resembles Ukrainian cities after Russian bombings and invasions, but with levels of destruction and killings that have surpassed in less than a month what we have seen in Ukraine in nearly two years.