In 1974, “the Rumble in the Jungle,” Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman, was the fight of the decade. It seems like the fight of this decade will be “the Cambridge Confrontation,” Trump vs. Harvard University. It’s strange. Trump has been trying to bludgeon Apple into assembling its iPhones in the U.S., while doing his best […]

Since the shooting dead of Israeli embassy staffers Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky in Washington, D.C., for the crime of simply being Jewish, the Portland Press Herald has done nothing but carry water for local anti-Semites hellbent on inflaming tensions regarding the conflict in the Middle East – a conflict started by Hamas when it […]

In recent decades, Popes Paul VI and John Paul II both promulgated solemn decrees reaffirming the church’s age old, unbroken teaching that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood. In “Ordinatio Sacerdotalis,” the most recent decree (John Paul II, 1994), it was stated inflexibly that the church “has no authority whatsoever” to do so, and […]

A recent attempt at a light-hearted piece on New Haven pizza, and how to access this unique food by flying with Avelo Airlines to Connecticut, chillingly normalizes something that is not normal (“Before booking a flight to New Haven, here are Mainers’ takes on apizza,” May 26). The writer acknowledges that some travelers are boycotting […]

If it’s a Republican policy goal to hand a tax break of $4.9 trillion over the next 10 years to businesses and wealthy Americans, as stated in their “big, beautiful bill,” they should make that clear in broad daylight, rather than in a 1 a.m. vote. If it’s a Republican policy goal to fund that […]

Peaks Island is a unique ecosystem. As such, it functions best when its remarkable residents’ achievements and community actions are acknowledged by the wider Portland community, as well as when its residents speak openly about concerns and oversights that affect this beautiful slip of land. A recent short article in your paper gave a cursory […]