The advice on achieving success is hard to take from someone who started out on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
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Maine Voices: We’ve been through bitter election years – and we’ve survived
Thomas Jefferson’s 1800 challenge to incumbent John Adams had everything we’re dealing with now, only worse.
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Maine Voices: We can put out next ‘Reichstag fire’ – if we’re ready to
The Bill of Rights gives us rights unknown in Nazi-era Germany: to speak out, assemble and march against abuses of power.
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Commentary: Ruth Bader Ginsburg modeled the practice of anti-cancel culture
The late Supreme Court justice sought to persuade her opponents, rather than destroy them.
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Maine Voices: Time for renewal of Black-Jewish unity against bigotry
In Maine and across the U.S., both communities need to remember their historic cooperation in demanding that America live up to its promise of equality for all.
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Maine Suffrage Centennial: To make America great, vote Black women into office
Black women are uniquely equipped to provide inclusive, fiscally adept and collaborative leadership.
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Sen. Breen: Fight for American women’s voting rights was generations-long battle
There are few clear-cut heroes or villains in the story of ratification, which features some events that fill us with pride and others that bring shame.
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Insight: Getting our house in order
Black lives won’t matter until we answer for the sins of slavery.
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Maine Voices: Kamala Harris graduated from university founded by Maine man
Union Gen. Oliver Otis Howard saw education for former slaves as the best way to ensure they could be informed voters.
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Maine Suffrage Centennial: Women’s fight for equal rights continues today
The National Woman’s Party led the fight for the 19th Amendment 100 years ago, but the work is not finished.