Op-eds - Portland Press Herald

Maine Voices: Labor laws stacked against American workers

by Cynthia Phinney Maine AFL-CIO September 6, 2021September 5, 2021

The leader of Maine’s largest labor organization says more people would join unions if they were given the opportunity.

by Victoria Hugo-Vidal September 5, 2021September 5, 2021

If people don’t trust medical science, they should look for work outside the health care system.

Maine political parties go wrong when they nominate safe candidates and run cookie-cutter campaigns.

An except from Bob Keyes’ new book, ‘The Isolation Artist.’

An electric tomato crusher? A giant inflatable cat? A cure for baldness? Look in your junk mail.

Each week on the edge of Portland Harbor, young adult immigrants share their thoughts on this troubled world.

By organizing in unions, cannery workers made their jobs into something that they could be proud of.

by Barbara S. Held Special to the Telegram September 5, 2021September 6, 2021

If we want to understand how COVID has influenced our world, we should study the impact of early disease outbreaks in classical Greece.

by Alan Toth Special to the Press Herald September 2, 2021September 1, 2021

We need to reject religious or civil absolutism that claims there is only one kind of American.

by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Miami Herald September 1, 2021September 9, 2021

A failure of imagination – the inability to conceive – made the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks possible. That is a mistake we cannot afford to repeat.