A dose of protection is a great way to start a new, post-COVID year.
Op-eds
Maine Observer: Close contact creates stress and a few laughs
Add a boombox and a cheerleading doll to the list of COVID losses.
Maine Voices: Wounds of Trump years run deeper than politics. Are we ready to heal?
The United States of America still has to reckon with the darkest eras of its past and to inclusively and equitably reconstruct what America can and ought to be.
Commentary: Families get long-term boost from support that focuses on both generations
Households that were struggling before COVID are gaining from access to counseling and education for parents and early learning for kids.
Commentary: The conservative case for impeaching Trump now
When the chief executive of the federal government incites an attack on the legislature, party differences should fall away.
Commentary: Rudy Giuliani has been down this riot road before
The man who urged ‘trial by combat’ Wednesday egged on a massive 1992 NYPD protest over a Black mayor’s moves toward police accountability.
Maine Voices: Tepid response to Capitol mob attack signals strategic law enforcement failure
This is what happens when everyone insists on retaining their traditional operational sovereignty. Everybody’s in charge, so nobody’s in charge.
Maine Voices: Shattering of Capitol’s sanctity demonstrates our nation’s fragility
Everyone who truly wants to protect our founding principles must stand up now for unity and justice.
Commentary: What pro-Trump insurrectionists share – and don’t – with the American Revolution
The revolutionaries also embraced conspiracy-driven violent direct action – but they would have opposed installing one man in power at the expense of the people’s sovereignty.
Commentary: I know how it feels to lose a stolen election. A real patriot would move on.
President Trump’s claims have no merit. But even if they did, he’s doing the wrong thing now.