I am a teacher and I’ve served many wonderful students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo the last few years. After the seizure of the eastern city of Goma by M23 rebels last month, the Congolese people are deeply worried and reaching out to the international community for support. Recently, hundreds protested in Kinshasa […]

Despite Gov. Janet Mills’ promise to protect it, Maine’s policy allowing biological males who identify as female to participate in women’s sports is a mistake. The policy fails to make two critical distinctions. The first is between gender identity based on emotion and psychology and sex based on incontrovertible reproductive and other physical characteristics. The […]

As an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, I observe that our country, from its very beginnings, has had conflicting origin stories. About one-third of Christians today believe that the United States was set aside by God as a paradise for white, male, European Christians who would then exercise divinely conferred, top-down dominion […]

I recently called Sen. Susan Collins’ office to share some of my fears and hopes for the present and future, given that she has the power to influence the course of history and relieve some of those fears. I mentioned a few different topics, and when I asked the senator’s office staff person here in […]

Thank you for the Feb. 1 article “Maine’s educators uncertain about impact of Trump orders on school choice, diversity.” Like many published over the past few weeks, it provides a valuable picture of how Maine’s institutions are struggling to understand how orders from the new presidential administration should be applied in practice. However, it is […]

Just be an adult and don’t use a straw. Steev Sutton Cape Elizabeth

As a fourth grade teacher, I taught my kids a little about the Constitution and how it creates a balance of power between the three branches of government. With different children in different roles — one the President, one the Congress and one the Supreme Court — I guided them through how an imaginary bill […]

After careful consideration, I’m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States in 2028. By this point, I am certain that the nation will be tired of the broligarchy. The male toxicity is not working for us, and Elon Musk has enough money to survive. I will make all the promises of the current […]

Here is a modest proposal for Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu: Since it’s so easy to move whole populations, they could move the Israelis out of all the settlements on the West Bank and let the Palestinians from Gaza move in. Then Palestinians would have their own state, Israel would be free of its troublesome […]