Op-eds - Portland Press Herald

Maine Voices: Maine has history of withholding treatment from inmates. COVID is no exception

by Jan M. Collins Special to the Press Herald March 11, 2021March 10, 2021

As a doctor who serves on one jail’s Board of Visitors says, ‘No one should be sentenced to lack of health care.’

by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Miami Herald March 10, 2021March 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh light on what it really means to live in an anti-reality society.

by Mihir Sharma Bloomberg Opinion March 10, 2021March 9, 2021

The world had hoped ‘America First’ would end when Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump as president. It hasn’t.

by Caleb Horton Special to the Press Herald March 10, 2021March 9, 2021

We are proud to be keeping local people fed and healthy, but we shouldn’t have to bear the burden of the pandemic.

by Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg Opinion March 9, 2021March 8, 2021

It ought to be clear, a year into the pandemic, that COVID-19 isn’t fake news and the U.S. isn’t a failed state.

by Ty Hobson-Powell Progressive Media Project March 9, 2021March 8, 2021

This is about enfranchising the more than 700,000 mostly Black and brown people who have waited centuries for representation in Congress.

by Trudy Rubin The Philadelphia Inquirer March 9, 2021March 8, 2021

‘2034: A Novel of the Next World War’ is fiction that envisions how we could blunder into conflict with Beijing.

by Norine Seymour Special to the Press Herald March 8, 2021March 7, 2021

Why would we pay dues that would give us benefits we already have and make the patient a secondary consideration?

The use of fetus-derived cells to develop COVID-19 vaccines is not a debate worth having at this pivotal moment.

by Kelly Kryc and Kelsey Lamp Special to the Telegram March 7, 2021March 6, 2021

The nation’s only undewater national monument lies 130 miles off the coast of Maine, and it’s under threat.