Germany, at the moment one of the world’s most stable democracies, is on its third try.
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Leonard Pitts: Anti-vaxxers use deeply offensive symbol to play-act at victimhood
By wearing yellow Stars of David, these self-obsessed whiners are co-opting pain that doesn’t belong to them.
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Maine Gardener: In ‘Plants Go to War,’ readers can observe history through an unusual lens
Ethnobotanist Judith Sumner has written a surprising, plants’-eye view of World War II, chock full of fascinating facts.
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Commentary: Colin Powell’s funeral was a missed opportunity to unite the country
Collective mourning has long brought Americans together.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table: A Lindbergh biography with manifold appeal
“Hero worship. Populism. Eugenics. ‘America First’ Nationalism. White Supremacy. Racism. Anti-Semitism. Disenfranchisement of Black Voters. Historian Christopher Gehrz (Bethel University, Minneapolis) touches on these themes and more in ‘Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot.’ “Most people can readily identify Charles Lindbergh as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic […]
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Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts
Throughout the aviator’s public life, she was tenacious about guarding her privacy, including her desire to be a writer.
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The humble Farmer: Just me and my several million closest relatives
My brother started out with a cardboard chart of seven generations – now I’m online trying to trace us back to Attila the Hun.
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Leonard Pitts: There’s ‘you people’ and ‘my people.’ Where did ‘we, the people’ go?
I venerate the ideals on which this country was founded. Sadly, many others no longer do.
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Bedside table: Big questions about us, in brief
“I finally picked up ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ by Yuval Noah Harari after my dad wouldn’t stop talking about it. And now I can’t stop talking about it. Harari’s frankness reels me in. His high-level, jam-packed recap of human’s (short) history on earth is impressive. In an odd way, the book has been […]
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Kennebunkport’s ‘Renaissance man’ honored at age 105
Frank Handlen has been a prolific artist, shipwright, sculptor and rock of the community for decades.
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