Technology can get the kinds of big numbers that all democracies want in key elections, and safeguard people who turn out to vote.
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Maine Voices: Calling high school volunteers for local food security programs
With increased youth involvement, we can strengthen nutrition access for all students and families across Cumberland County.
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Maine Voices: Vaccine opposition both causes death and blocks others from care
My husband, who recently lost his unvaccinated twin to COVID, is himself awaiting surgery – and I don’t want anti-vaccine caregivers anywhere near him.
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Commentary: Newsom crushed the California recall. Let the phony fraud probes begin
As we look back on a waste of an election that cost taxpayers $276 million, the governor should take this moment to reflect on his shortcomings.
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Leonard Pitts: A reality TV show is turning social causes into a competition. And we all lose
You know how you kill a social revolution? You turn it into a commodity.
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Commentary: The European disease that’s mutated through the Black Death and COVID
As the biological virus attacks bodies, the mental virus of anti-Semitism infects hearts and cultures where hatred has never ceased to be endemic.
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Maine Voices: Two actions could save our children’s lives – now
Starting with kids 2 and under, all DHHS referrals should get an in-home assessment, and all open cases should receive a ‘desktop’ audit.
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Maine Voices: Our engagement in Afghanistan was not a failure until we quit
Our capitulation has swept aside considerations of future security risks, personal freedoms in the country and obligations to those we helped.
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Commentary: Texas upends the Republican ‘leave us alone coalition’
The state’s restrictive abortion law threatens to destroy an uneasy truce among several factions of the conservative movement.
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The View From Here: We in the media helped inflame 9/11 hysteria
In a moment of crisis, we lowered our standards just when they were needed most.