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View from Away: The GOP still wants to ban abortion
It’s not surprising that the Republican Party took out of its platform, after decades, support of a national abortion ban. Not that Donald Trump and his new vice presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, have had some epiphany and renounced their longstanding opposition to reproductive rights. It’s more likely that party leaders realized […]
Scholars Strategy Network: How health care policies from Biden, Trump stack up for Maine
Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Opinion pieces in this series try to answer this question by examining critical parts of our day-to-day lives. There is nothing more integral to feeling better off than having timely access to medical care when your family needs it. Small wonder that health care […]
Douglas Rooks: ‘Fighting Joe’ the answer to our Biden woes
Biden has a path to political recovery, paved by none other than Harry Truman in 1948, the columnist writes.
Commentary: There’s only one right response to the Trump shooting
I was boarding a plane from Los Angeles back home to Philadelphia when the news hit that former President Donald Trump had been injured during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The details were sketchy, but the responses online and on the plane were already wild — and entirely predictable. This is precisely the kind of […]
Hilary Koch: From Rome to Waterville … with love
A trip through central Maine is full of everyday wonder.
Douglas Rooks: Much more at stake than Biden-Trump
We’ve just lived through an extraordinary political crisis — extraordinary because so unexpected. The about-to-be-renominated president delivered an instantly notorious debate performance June 27 that left some supporters gasping while others headed for the exits. On Monday, with Congress back, Joe Biden quieted dissent with a letter usefully read by all Americans, not just Democrats. […]