Congratulations to Bri Auspland. The Nov. 7 opinion piece “The morning after: Reflections from a young American” was brilliant. It caught the angst of a student in Portland, and the angst of our nation. Larre Nelson Portland

Douglas Carter’s letter to the editor (“What if it’s not the Democrats who are out of touch?” Nov. 12), laid out why Democrats’ failure to win the presidential election was not because they were “out of touch.” As a lifelong Democrat, while I agree with Mr. Carter on all of the issues he listed, it […]

Moving forward, for a democracy (where truth, integrity, honesty, inclusiveness, rule of law and peace matter) to thrive and flourish, there must be complete and honest sharing of actual news and ideas, among the entire populace, without fake news or conspiracy theories. In our country, I understand that only 20% or so of the population […]

Now that Donald Trump is going to be president again and it looks like he will have a Republican Senate and likely a Republican House as well, I am afraid that I will lose my medical insurance, which I have through the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”). Republicans have been trying to repeal the ACA […]

While I realize that your coverage of the news is totally biased toward the left, I find it hard to believe that this newspaper cannot find a single letter expressing a positive reaction to Donald Trump winning the presidential election. Don’t you think you should show your subscribers at least a small iota of journalistic […]

Todd Nelson identified Walt Whitman’s great Reconstruction-era essay “Democratic Vistas” as a way to understand our perilous time (“Revisit the cautionary words of Walt Whitman,” Nov. 11). Whitman was a great soul who witnessed many of the transformative events during the still-controversial period after the Civil War. Although one commentator described Whitman’s prose style here […]

I do not believe in a general theory of evilness. The great majority of us have, in the past, felt a motivation to be kind and considerate to one another. Some force is causing many of us to now fear and ignore this instinct. I cannot claim to understand the nature of this change. I […]

Donald Trump will soon be our president – my president – again. It is not the outcome I wanted, but it is what many other citizens do want. I accept this. If we must implement Trump’s vision, let’s do so in ways that respect our shared immigrant history and the promise of “life, liberty and […]