I listened with amusement recently when Donald Trump discussed the possibility of getting into heaven. He thought his chances were pretty good. If there is a heaven and a hell, Trump will be going to the latter. This topic reminded me of reading Dante’s poem “The Inferno” in high school. According to him, there are […]

Here’s a wild idea: democracy! One vote for each voter. The candidate who gets the most votes wins! Oh yeah, we’re a republic not a democracy. So, we get to endure all that fun redistricting. How about a simple democratic vote? One vote per person. What could happen? Valerie Razsa Gray

As we contemplate the new gerrymandered election map in Texas, it would be smart to remember that Adolf Hitler never achieved an absolute majority in a free and fair German election. While the Nazi Party experienced significant growth in popularity in the early 1930s, particularly during times of economic and political instability, it was unable […]

I see value in a union into one country. The United States could access Canada’s vast resources and Canadians could access U.S. markets. But, parts of Canada joining the U.S. is not the right approach. Canada is the pragmatic democracy that the U.S. has always yearned to be. United States freedoms are not actually protected. […]

President Trump’s Department of Justice has transferred a woman out of the facility with Ghislaine Maxwell after she criticized her being there as a sex offender in an interview. The woman has been sent to another facility with violent offenders. You can’t criticize Trump’s sex offenders now. Paul Bacon Hallandale Beach, Fla.

I was dismayed to see that many commenters on the Aug. 21 story “Mainers like absentee voting. Question 1 would make that option harder” failed to grasp the story’s main point. That was summarized in its subheading: “The November referendum has been framed around requiring voter ID, but it also includes a host of changes […]