A World War II era energy project stands in sharp contrast to Maine’s slow progress on offshore wind.
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Insight: Not our Pearl Harbor, but our Somme
World War I’s bloodiest battle denotes the scope of the societal shifts necessary to combat COVID.
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Insight: Getting our house in order
Black lives won’t matter until we answer for the sins of slavery.
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Insight: Antitrust laws are no match for Big Tech
Century-old statutes can’t cope with companies that maintain market dominance through harvesting data for free.
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Insight: Fear of flying is a COVID symptom
Airlines were able to bring back their customers soon after the 9/11 attacks, but recovering from the pandemic might not be so easy.
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Insight: How to handle a demagogue
Joe McCarthy was infamous. But Republicans stuck with him – just as they have with Donald Trump.
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Insight: The nation’s first Black lawyer got his start in Maine
Fighting racial discrimination all the way, Macon Bolling Allen blazed a trail in the legal profession that started with his admission to the bar in Portland.
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Insight: Bernie Sanders becomes a team player
The Vermont senator is working with Democratic establishment to elect Joe Biden, even though he is still not a member of the party.
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Insight: Industry history tells why meatpacking is a COVID-19 hot spot
In the best of times, these are hard jobs done by workers with little clout.
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Insight: Reopening the economy after COVID
Deciding how and when to restart American businesses is ultimately a nonpolitical question that we should all help answer.