Never forget that autocrats are ultimately failures. When they make mistakes, those mistakes are often enormous. Consider Putin: Faced with an aging and declining population, he got the brilliant idea that the perfect solution was to create a war with a large neighboring country with a similar language and culture, who could have been a […]

Maine and the U.S. are facing real problems. One is a health care crisis, particularly in rural areas, that will be made worse by the proposed cuts to Medicaid (and perhaps Medicare) to pay for tax cuts to those who need it least. More health care workers are needed, but the GOP is targeting immigrants, […]

My hope in writing this letter is to prompt readers to reflect on their own health care experiences and ask: “What kind of care do I deserve?” and “Are my providers truly meeting my needs?” I work as an outpatient mental health therapist in rural Maine. In 2024, I enrolled in a neurofeedback training program […]

I find it shamefully ironic that 85 years after the genocide of Jewish people and others by the Nazis, the Israeli government behaves in the same way. No ovens, just bombs and missiles. I remind those who remain ignorant that this mess was created in 1947 with the Balfour Declaration by Britain. Then came the […]

The recent “No Kings” protests affirmed just how furious millions of American patriots are with the Trump administration’s Gestapo-esque enforcement of deportation policy. However, by focusing our energy on the acute symptoms of our country’s MAGA disease (ICE abductions, the president’s deluded ramblings, his unhinged foreign policy, etc.) we distract ourselves from the root cause […]

In the year 1969, man landed on the moon, and my 7-year-old brother was admitted to the children’s cancer ward at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Curing childhood leukemia in 1969 was truly a moonshot. My brother did not survive. My parents, in their unfathomable grief, gave consent to an autopsy. What […]