My parents were golfers — good golfers. My father told me golf was a “gentleman’s game”; a player did not throw his golf club, or wrap it around a tree, or insult a fellow golfer. He would have been in disbelief last week if he had been around to see the last round of the […]

Though no longer Catholic or a believer of any stripe, I want to comment on the meeting in September between Pope Leo XIV and Jesuit Father James Martin, founder of Outreach, a support group for LGBTQ+ Catholics. The pope, in short, encouraged him to continue his ministry to the group’s members. After reading reports on […]

Even in the face of sinking one of our naval vessels, the USS Liberty, in 1967, we continue to send Israel billions of dollars every year. And we’ve not held it accountable for anything. How many people in Gaza and the surrounding area have to die by starvation and American bombs? The fault is ours. […]

I am thrilled to see the ongoing restorations of the Colonial Theater in Augusta and Johnson Hall in Gardiner. The work comes with the return of 1920s-era silent film screenings, a time when Augusta was a destination for that period’s most famous actresses and actors. My grandparents were married in the middle of that lively […]

Charlie Kirk’s fans say he wasn’t racist or misogynist, but simply wanted to preserve positions of power for deserving people. He wanted a meritocracy. Yet Kirk’s examples of “incompetent,” “moronic” people were all either Black or female, as if there were not an ample supply of incompetent white males to merit his concern. Kirk’s supporters […]

The Associated Press article in your Sept. 9 edition, “What Americans think about socialism and capitalism,” had so many poll percentages broken up between the Republican and Democratic parties that it became confusing. And, with almost no substance of what their ideologies represent. Since we never see the original poll question, the resulting percentages don’t really […]

With any government shutdown, the first who should lose their pay, or their job, are the members of the U.S. House and Senate. They forget they are supposed to work for the American people, not their political party or for any other elected official. They do not take orders from the White House.  They suffer […]

In America, freedom of speech has always been one of our most cherished rights. Yet today that freedom is under threat from President Trump and the MAGA movement. Trump’s attacks on the press and his calls to “punish” critics all point to a dangerous disregard for the First Amendment. America’s strength has always rested on […]