Even when people are at their most noble, dark-skinned refugees from the country are being singled out for mistreatment.
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Maine Voices: Putin uses Big Lie to shape popular narrative on Ukraine
A former KGB officer, the Russian president has resurrected Lenin’s and Stalin’s approach as a policy tool. Here are six examples.
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Commentary: With Facebook cut off, beware an isolated Russia’s ‘splinternet’
While it makes geopolitical sense to sting the Kremlin with sanctions, blocking information tools hurts Russian citizens.
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Maine Voices: End of South Portland hotels’ homeless-housing lease points to bigger problem
Too many Maine residents and officials think that homelessness and the individuals experiencing it can be pushed to the next town over.
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Commentary: Ukrainian patriots are fighting for what we believe in
The U.S. and its European partners, meanwhile, are applying sanctions carefully calibrated not to disrupt their economies.
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Maine Voices: Rural Maine families need mental health support
The state has a mixed record at best when it comes to providing care for children with behavioral health needs.
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Jim Fossel: Maine needs more competition in gambling
A sports betting monopoly for the Wabanaki tribes would be a bad deal for everyone.
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The best climate science you’ve never heard of says doom is still avoidable
But global emissions must fall 45 percent by 2030 to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial levels – the line we can’t cross if we are to avoid catastrophic, if not irreversible, consequences.
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The Maine Millennial: Expanded ‘Good Samaritan’ law needed to slow Maine overdose deaths
When what you are doing doesn’t work, it’s time to try something else. Our current drug policies aren’t working.
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Maine Voices: Invasion evokes ghosts of the Nazi past in Russia, Ukraine
Putin in particular is skilled in using language and imagery to play to an audience all too familiar with the realities of occupation.