THE CONVERSATION — Former President Donald Trump claims that the president of the United States is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution. On March 19, 2024, Trump filed his brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith for Trump’s alleged criminal attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump argued in […]

THE CONVERSATION — Congress has once again been making headlines for all the wrong reasons, with multiplenews outlets in recent months touting the current 118th Congress as possibly the least productive in the institution’s history. In 2023, Congress only passed 34 bills into law, the lowest number in decades. Congress was only recently able to pass a budget bill that will […]

THE CONVERSATION — A deadly attack in Moscow on March 22, 2024, exposed the vulnerability of the Russian capital to the threat of the Islamic State group and its affiliate ISIS-K. But it also displayed the reach of the network, leading some terror experts to ponder: Could a U.S. city be next? There has not been a […]

We live in interesting times. Is it a curse or a blessing to be part of the struggle to save our planet? If you’re overwhelmed by the responsibility, you might retreat into cynicism, give up hope, and do nothing — leaving it to others to take action. But if you invest the time to understand […]

In the middle of the night recently, while crises whirled around the world, the U.S. made a major policy move. Not about Ukraine. Not about immigration. The Senate simply adopted a new temporary budget bill to keep the federal government running for six more months, setting up a crisis for just before the election. During […]

Tedford Housing’s effort to fund construction of a new, consolidated shelter facility received two significant public investments in March, catapulting our fundraising total to over $8 million and kicking off the final phase of the campaign. Maine Housing awarded Tedford $257,000 under the Emergency Housing Matching Grant Program, which was established in 2023 through enactment […]

Sometimes we get to see examples of human courage, and occasionally, I even catch a glimpse of my own, but not awfully often. If human wimpiness had been a required subject in school, I’d have gotten really good grades in it. I once had the honor of seeing raw grit in action. Twice. I thought […]