Maine Voices - Portland Press Herald

Maine Voices: Holocaust comparisons have unintended consequences

by Robert Finegold Special to the Telegram July 7, 2019July 6, 2019

The lessons of Hitler’s reign of brutality are weakened if every injustice is likened to them.

by Joe Wagner Special to the Press Herald July 6, 2019July 5, 2019

Originalism is wholesale fraud, manufactured by Justice Antonin Scalia and the Federalist Society.

by Anna Wrobel Special to the Press Herald July 5, 2019July 4, 2019

Whatever the defining term, we need to focus on the degradation being funded by our tax dollars at the border.

by Joseph W. Gauld Special to the Press Herald July 4, 2019July 3, 2019

The idea that getting into a good college enables a lucrative career and, therefore, happiness has done a lot of damage.

by Robert Casimiro Special to the Press Herald July 3, 2019December 27, 2019

The best way to deal with the surge is to require asylum seekers to apply from home or a third country, not at the border.

by Amanda L. Carr Special to the Press Herald July 2, 2019July 1, 2019

Relieving personal suffering shouldn’t entail the risk of prolonging it.

by Robert Klose Special to the Press Herald July 1, 2019June 29, 2019

Devotion to the president is a religion, and you can’t talk people out of faith.

by Dennis Camire Special to the Telegram June 30, 2019June 28, 2019

For too long, poverty wages have been the norm in adjunct teaching, a profession dominated by women. State officials must change that.

by Jonathan Ruterbories Special to the Press Herald June 29, 2019June 28, 2019

A new state law will help ensure that financial obligations will not haunt juveniles well beyond their involvement in the system.

by Richard Killmer Special to the Press Herald June 28, 2019June 27, 2019

Fossil fuel-driven climate change will have a particularly devastating impact on the poor and on future generations.