Where is the outrage? Yes, there have been demonstrations around the country protesting President Trump’s authoritarian moves. But a week after each demonstration, people quiet down and go back to their lives. I am shocked we don’t have even more vocal outrage at what is happening to our democracy. Just today there was a story […]

President Trump blundered into the endless conflict between Israel and Iran, without the consent of Congress, sweeping aside one of the very bulwarks of the U.S. Constitution. He has unleashed weapons of mass destruction in a perilous world, creating an aftermath of violent global instability. I implore Congress to take back the powers that rightfully […]

Sen. Susan Collins should vote against the current reconciliation bill. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cuts to Medicaid in the bill will make 39,000 Mainers lose their health insurance. The last thing Maine needs is fewer people who can afford to go to the doctor, more people putting off treatment they need or […]

It is the best of times and the worst of times for our First Amendment. A letter writer’s accusation that the Maine Trust for Local News and the mass media are carrying out a censorship campaign against President Trump or anything with a conservative bias (“Where are the conservative letters?” June 17) certainly dovetails nicely […]

Never forget that autocrats are ultimately failures. When they make mistakes, those mistakes are often enormous. Consider Putin: Faced with an aging and declining population, he got the brilliant idea that the perfect solution was to create a war with a large neighboring country with a similar language and culture, who could have been a […]