The alarming world view that favors superiority and dominance tends to disregard the air, waters, land and wildlife on which we collectively depend.
Donald Trump
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Time dismisses Trump’s claim he ‘took a pass’ on being ‘Person of the Year’
The magazine says the president is ‘incorrect’ about how it makes its choice. A former editor is less kind.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: World’s most powerful nation kicks Haiti while it’s still down
The expulsion of 60,000 Haitians is needless and cruel.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Two months after Maria, Puerto Rico far from normal
Most of the island’s 3.4 million residents are still without electricity.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Second judge halts Trump’s proposed transgender military ban
A federal judge finds that active service members are already suffering harmful consequences as a result of the policy.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Kathleen Parker: Groping a serious offense but context, circumstance important to consider
While the transgressions of Al Franken and Roy Moore cannot be excused, every situation has its differences.
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Trump fans flames in Franken groping scandal
The president’s critics say politics are at play in his responses – or not – to prominent men accused of sexual harassment.
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Our View: Resignation of watchdog puts American consumers at risk
Maine’s senators should push back early and often against efforts to install a compliant figurehead as permanent head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Our View: Trump’s court nominees unfit for lifetime seats
Maine’s Susan Collins and other Republican senators have a duty to stand up for a conscientious, competent and ethical judiciary.
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Leonard Pitts: Lesson from elections – If anti-Trump crowd gets energized and votes, it wins
His backers won’t change; they can only be defeated. Last week’s voting results show that’s not impossible.