Campaigns – for president and Congress – are not bothering to acknowledge our critical situation or address its causes and remedies.
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Leonard Pitts: A call for ‘liberty’ is a call for death
Anti-lockdown protesters can’t bear to be forced to do a thing, even if that thing is necessary to save lives.
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Maine Bicentennial: Portland
In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights from our communities’ past 200 years, in print and online every other week.
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Commentary: By sounding alarm about COVID, Navy captain put crew ahead of career
Brett Crozier followed the evidence and acted rationally out of concern for the lives of his sailors, a fellow Naval Academy graduate says.
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Commentary: To save lives, social distancing must continue longer than we expect
The course of the 1918 influenza epidemic has lessons for us.
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Leonard Pitts: Some of us will never be ‘American’ enough to satisfy the bigots
Americans of Asian heritage have no obligation to prove themselves to those who beat and spit upon them.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Forecasts of a looming economic depression are greatly exaggerated
The Fed is showing that it’s willing to go to great lengths to mitigate COVID-19’s impact.
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Commentary: A virus is raging. The economy is in free fall. Why Trump’s approval rating has gone up
The surge can be attributed to bipartisan support for the president’s crisis management – but it has been relatively small, and it probably won’t last long.
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Commentary: Coronavirus may become this century’s Second World War
The people who endured the Great Depression and ‘the War’ have some lessons to share with us.
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Green Plate Special: The fate of wild salmon may point to the fate of the planet
And if history is any guide, we should be worried, writer Mark Kurlansky argued on a recent visit to Maine to promote his new book.