Although policies alone will not solve the challenges we’re facing, many of them will significantly help.
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Commentary: An AI Bill of Rights may do more harm than good
Asking for restraint is futile, with any guidelines created unenforceable and likely to be ignored by most stakeholders.
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Tom Purcell: Dodging increasing crime rates
People are getting so used to increasing crime rates in cities across America, an etiquette is evolving between some muggers and their victims. I learned about this while I walked with my friend and his wife from a Washington D.C. pub to their home six blocks from the Hill. “When you get mugged, there are […]
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The Maine Idea: Biden’s campaign under the radar
Joe Biden seems to be enjoying himself this summer. The first-term president has traveled the globe and presided over unprecedented European unity. With opposition to Sweden’s bid to join NATO gone, the continent is collectively committed to rolling back Vladimir Putin’s reckless invasion of Ukraine. The war will be long — Russian troops are dug-in […]
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Commentary: Maine’s business community doesn’t support new tax-funded entitlement
Next session, Gov. Mills should introduce a bill that creates a family-related leave program that works for all Mainers, including small businesses, and is considerate of Maine’s economic constraints.
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Commentary: Can the U.S. and the United Nations do anything about Haiti?
The future of an intervention force is unclear, but Washington could make a big difference in the meantime by working to stop the smuggling of firearms to the gangs that are taking over the nation.
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Commentary: Barbie is more than a longtime feminist flashpoint
Together, in the 1960s and ’70s, we weathered the societal upheavals that roiled women’s lives.
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Danny Tyree: How’s that honeymoon working out for you?
“Have you seen everything you want to see?” “Yeah. You?” “Me too. Let’s go back home.” That’s a paraphrased version of my parents’ conversation midway through their honeymoon in 1958. Unimpressed by the hype of an out-of-state adventure, they chose to hightail it back to the real world. (The real worlds of 1958 and 2023 […]
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Carl Golden: Fox News praying Trump shows up to debate
While the field of participants in the first Republican presidential debate on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee is essentially settled, the run up to the event is overshadowed by who might ditch it altogether and turn it into a meaningless gathering. It is yet another instance of the long shadow cast by former president Donald Trump […]
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Clarence Page: Defense bill no longer a no-brainer, as Speaker McCarthy gives in to far-right faction
Congress used to pass Pentagon funding with an easy bipartisan coalition. In the era of culture wars, that’s over.
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