The major powers may well find fewer attacks to be worthwhile. The downside: When attacks do come, they’ll have to be very public and very decisive.
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Insight: Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows
Winning a televised debate has as much to do with governing as winning a quiz show has to do with intellectual endeavor.
CMP aims to restore trust with ad campaign
The TV and radio ads say Central Maine Power has made changes to improve customer service.
The View From Here: Letters about vaccines blur the lines
As the old saying goes, people are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
Leonard Pitts: Reporter misquotes Buttigieg and apologizes. Then all hell breaks loose
No controversy ends quietly on social media – instead, the conspiracy theorists just transfer their anger to someone else.
Leonard Pitts: Get over it, boomers! Gen Z’s disdain for us is the natural order of things
The kids may ‘OK’ this boomer to their hearts’ content – someday, they’ll fill his shoes.
Craigslist founder donates to group fighting fake news
Craig Newmark will help First Draft, which is planning to train journalists in recognizing and fighting the spread of disinformation.
The View From Here: Mourning a ‘death’ in the Maine journalism family
The Biddeford Journal Tribune served its community for 135 years. When it ends publication this month, it will leave a void.
Marc A. Thiessen: Rough transcript makes clear that Democrats got ahead of the evidence
It falls far short of expectations – as does the whistleblower complaint about President Trump’s interactions with the leader of Ukraine.
George Lardner Jr., who received Pulitzer for investigation of his daughter’s murder, dies at 85
Lardner said he would ‘give anything not to have written’ the story that won the 1993 prize for feature writing.