The Providence Journal (R.I.), Aug. 14: Is there life on other planets? No scientific evidence has been found, and it’s possible none will ever be found. This hasn’t stopped human beings from dreaming, imagining and speculating what extraterrestrial life forms could look like. What scientists have confirmed, however, is that there are planets outside our […]
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Jeb Bush and the dangers of refighting the Iraq War
Jeb Bush based his first major foreign policy address, delivered last week at the Reagan Library, on the classic Republican interpretation of the war in Iraq. Yes, mistakes were made at the beginning, Bush conceded, but what really matters is that the surge succeeded in 2007-2008 and that President George W. Bush handed over a […]
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Off the grid and onto the griddle
Outside the city, there’s a big, old, rambling farmhouse with maid’s quarters, front and back staircases, wood-burning fireplaces and six-over-six windows that still have that ancient, squiggly glass in them. It’s down in a valley on a deadend dirt road. It’s the kind of place that might make a charming B&B: a place with loads […]
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Kasich’s moment
This is what a political surge looks like: The men of the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Railroad Avenue frantically unfold dozens of extra plastic chairs Wednesday morning, 30 minutes before the arrival of a presidential candidate who barely qualified for the 10- person Republican debate a week earlier. There’s a brisk business in […]
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Circus over substance
The first presidential debate of 2016 is now in the books. It says something about the quality of the major Republican candidates that the best performance by far belonged to former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who wasn’t polling in the top 10 and didn’t make the main event. If her numbers hold, she will be […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Rutland Herald (Vt.), Aug. 8: Travelers in the Midwest are often astonished at the sight of train after train lined up with hopper after hopper of coal. Vermonters are not generally confronted with the massive scale of America’s industrial infrastructure and the energy required to keep it going. Much of that energy, especially for […]
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Two kinds of leadership on display
Two Maine women have given us a couple of valuable lessons about government. One was Leigh I. Saufley, vhief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and the other was U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. For a unanimous Court, Saufley wrote the reply to questions from Gov. Paul LePage on whether the Legislature had adjourned or […]
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Transgender student policy requires clear language
It’s a big moment in the history of transgender culture. The “T” in “LGBT” has been given a lot of media attention in recent months, spurred in part by the transition of Olympic gold medal gymnast Bruce Jenner from a man to a woman, Caitlyn. Jenner, who reemerged in the spotlight on the reality show […]