Neither a diplomatic boycott, nor refusing to send American athletes, will improve Beijing’s human rights record.
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Our View: Bob Dole lived a great American life
The tough partisan warrior who also valued compromise with his adversaries showed patriotic values that are missing from today’s politics.
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Bedside table: A muse of another species
“I bought ‘Mozart’s Starling’ by Lyanda Lynn Haupt at Bull Moose in Waterville. It thrilled me to read about the ordinary starling being a pet for Mozart for three years in his Vienna apartment. The author experienced the same in her home in order to write her bird facts and music facts. Star was Mozart’s […]
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Insight: Is democracy invincible? It’s been lost before
Germany, at the moment one of the world’s most stable democracies, is on its third try.
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Leonard Pitts: Anti-vaxxers use deeply offensive symbol to play-act at victimhood
By wearing yellow Stars of David, these self-obsessed whiners are co-opting pain that doesn’t belong to them.
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Maine Gardener: In ‘Plants Go to War,’ readers can observe history through an unusual lens
Ethnobotanist Judith Sumner has written a surprising, plants’-eye view of World War II, chock full of fascinating facts.
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Commentary: Colin Powell’s funeral was a missed opportunity to unite the country
Collective mourning has long brought Americans together.
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Bedside Table: A Lindbergh biography with manifold appeal
“Hero worship. Populism. Eugenics. ‘America First’ Nationalism. White Supremacy. Racism. Anti-Semitism. Disenfranchisement of Black Voters. Historian Christopher Gehrz (Bethel University, Minneapolis) touches on these themes and more in ‘Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot.’ “Most people can readily identify Charles Lindbergh as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic […]
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Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts
Throughout the aviator’s public life, she was tenacious about guarding her privacy, including her desire to be a writer.
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The humble Farmer: Just me and my several million closest relatives
My brother started out with a cardboard chart of seven generations – now I’m online trying to trace us back to Attila the Hun.