The nominally pro-choice senator played a key role in assembling an extremist Supreme Court.
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Commentary: We should never forget Vincent Chin
Even young Asian Americans don’t know about the young man, murdered because of his race, 40 years ago.
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Maine Voices: Caring for pets takes more than love
Before making the commitment to care for an animal, an expert suggests asking yourself some hard questions.
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Maine Voices: The individual right to bear arms is a recent phenomenon
Relentless messaging by the gun lobby changed public opinion and the Supreme Court followed.
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Commentary: Time is running out for deal between Anthem, MaineHealth, CEO says
Unless something changes, the state’s largest health care provider is ready to drop the state’s largest insurance plan from its network next year.
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Leonard Pitts: Violence comes from all directions, but GOP embraces it
ABC News thought it was – in the words of George Stephanopoulos – “too ugly” and “too dangerous” and declined to show it on air. So Rep. Adam Kinzinger tweeted it Sunday night, letting us all see the threatening letter that recently came to his wife, Sofia, at the home where they live with Christian, […]
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Commentary: Beware Russia’s ‘nesting game’ in its war on Ukraine
Sometimes tensions escalate because of dueling factions among allies, not increased conflict between enemies.
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Maine Voices: Piping plovers need federal backing to complete comeback
From a low of just eight pairs in the 1980s to 125 pairs on Maine beaches last year, these birds can escape extinction with a fully funded Endangered Species Act.
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Commentary: What I learned at my 40th college reunion
No one can avoid sorrow forever, but time has mercy all its own.
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Maine Voices: Gardens can’t grow without bees and other bugs
Pesticides and herbicides have cut populations of as much as 80 percent of insect species around the world,