Donald Trump recently told supporters that he expects to be reinstated to the presidency by August. And at a QAnon-linked conference, his pardoned former aide Gen. Michael Flynn acknowledged, when asked, that this “should happen” through a Myanmar-type coup, a threat he later walked back, though it’s a belief that QAnon followers have been promoting […]

David Emery makes an excellent case for holding fossil fuel companies financially responsible for the damage caused by putting corporate profits ahead of corporate responsibility and destabilizing a climate essential to the survival of our current human population (June 5). It’s shocking to find out that these same companies received $1 billion in financing from […]

Drs. Larry Kaplan and Bill Clark make the argument that Maine should implement universal health care (“Letter to the editor: Give Mainers chance to vote on equitable health care system,” June 6). They state that the system should be “equitably funded” and should leave no one out. The term “equitably funded” is further specified on […]

I am a movement artist, a mom and an advocate, and I recently had the opportunity to speak with Terrence Real, the author of “I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression,” about some parenting challenges we have been facing. I wanted to pass forward what I learned with […]

Former President Donald Trump’s speech on June 5, while largely ignored by media outlets, was another in a series of nihilist, self-obsessed rants about a “Third World country election like we’ve never seen before.” An out-and-out assault on the integrity of American democracy. A washed-up, soon-to-be-indicted has-been continues to wreak havoc, feed a hungry conspiracy […]

My parents were born in 1914. Before they were age 10, Mussolini snuffed out democracy in Italy. In my parents’ teens, Stalin and Hitler crushed dissent in Russia and Germany. Salazar and Franco did the same in Portugal and Spain. Shortly after their 25th birthdays, the UK declared war with Germany. My father volunteered as […]

A headline on a Washington Post news story in the June 8 Press Herald (Page A2) states “Atmospheric carbon dioxide reaches highest levels in 63 years.” This statement is open to misinterpretation: It suggests that carbon dioxide, or CO2, levels prior to 63 years ago might have been higher than now. In fact, the opposite […]

One of the more subtle elements of the white supremacy in which we white folks were raised is the privilege to insist on politeness from those who are screaming in pain. We have been taught that we have the right to make others be nice to us, in order for them to be heard by […]