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The View From Here: Conspiracy theory takes hold in Maine GOP

What looks like genuine concern about people who are homeless may really be something much more sinister.

by Marc A. Thiessen The Washington Post June 21, 2019June 20, 2019

Watch his rivals pounce as he defends not segregation, but civility and compromise.

by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Miami Herald June 19, 2019June 19, 2019

This is the story of an ongoing crime: America’s long history of using dark-skinned men as its all-purpose ‘other.’

by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Miami Herald May 22, 2019May 21, 2019

Pretending to be motivated by concern for African Americans is both cynical and offensive.

by Michael Weiss and Julia Ebner Special to The Washington Post May 19, 2019May 18, 2019

A French travel writer’s ‘Great Replacement’ theory has inspired white-identity terrorists as far away as New Zealand.

Massacres like the one in New Zealand are the predictable result of the rise in international intolerance.

by THE EDITORIAL BOARD March 19, 2019March 18, 2019

It reflects badly on the state Republican Party that Vice Chairman Nick Isgro’s hateful tweets are still up under the Maine Republican Party banner.

by KATHERINE K. LEE Web Editor March 17, 2019March 17, 2019

It’s not minority kids who are taking undeserved spaces in college. It’s those who got in through affirmative action for the rich.

by the editorial board March 10, 2019March 9, 2019

Regardless of anyone’s intent, the sports teams’ name was offensive and hurtful and had to go.

by LEONARD PITTS March 6, 2019March 5, 2019

There are a lot of men like the Atlanta college senior whose juggling of studying and parenting recently went viral.