Just this month, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg named Citizens United ”“ the 2010 decision that gave corporations the same freedom of speech rights as people and rubber-stamped unlimited corporate spending in elections ”“ as the one decision in the last decade she would overturn if she could. And President Barack Obama told Vox […]

Elizabeth Santorum was 17 years old when her sister Bella was born. In a new book, “Bella’s Gift,” that she wrote with her parents, Rick and Karen, she reflects on the uninformed view of love that she had before her youngest sister taught her something more. Santorum’s last name is no doubt familiar to you. […]

Benjamin Franklin, before the formation of our nation, indicated in his autobiography that he used to get together with friends once per week to discuss history, philosophy, politics, ethics and various sciences. Learned men becoming more learned through the discussion of facts and ideas. I have always been so jealous, wanting something similar. It’s not […]

It’s almost as if Scott Walker knew he could get in trouble just by traveling to London. In the U.K. recently for a trade mission, the governor of Wisconsin and likely presidential candidate went to the Chatham House think tank to talk Wisconsin business ”“ and ended up the headline of stories about, of all […]

In the past 40 years, Maine has elected a majority winning governor only twice. Consequently, our current system of plurality voting has yielded victories for minority winners nine times. We need to consider a better system to elect our leaders ”“ one that would benefit candidates of all parties, and more importantly, benefit Maine voters. […]

Because I’m not running for anything, I can give it to you straight: Christianity pretty much got out of the genocide business when church and state became separated in the United States and Europe following the American Revolution. As a consequence, all of the truly impressive mass murders in living memory were carried out by […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers around New England: The Day of New London (Conn.), Feb. 13: President Obama has come to recognize that justifying the current campaign in Iraq and Syria by using military authorizations passed by Congress in the wake of the 9/11 attacks of 2001 has precluded a necessary debate. That debate […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers around New England: The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester (Mass.), Feb. 6: The world learned Feb. 3 that Harper Lee, author of the classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” will have a second novel published this July. After years of resisting pleas for another book, the 88-year-old Lee recently […]