“Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” is on April 25th, and I think we should try something different this year: Let’s take our daughters and sons to grandma’s. The Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Foundation says that April 25 is designed to be more than just a career day — […]

An adjudicated rapist, who was recently held liable by a jury for physically invading a woman’s bodily autonomy, has now taken it upon himself to opine about how government can control women’s bodily autonomy. Before we even begin to analyze Donald Trump’s announcement of his stance on abortion this week, we do need to stipulate […]

I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington. As the GOP proved again in the House this week, it’s incapable of accomplishing anything of importance. This week, the big vote was over the reauthorization of a reformed version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — […]

THE CONVERSATION — When former President Donald Trump soon returns to court in New York City, there are likely to be few visual surprises. Trump’s hush-money trial before New York Judge Juan Merchan is scheduled to start with jury selection on April 15, 2024. Monday’s scene will likely echo the one from 2023, when Trump walked past […]

Former President Donald Trump’s New York trial on charges related to paying hush money to an adult film star begins on April 15,  The Conversation U.S. asked Tim Bakken, a former New York prosecutor and now a legal scholar teaching at West Point, and Karrin Vasby Anderson, a political communication expert at Colorado State University, to set the […]

In many ways, Brunswick is a prototypical New England college town. The respected and highly thought-of Bowdoin College sits on the hill, spreading the aura of learning and sophistication over the landscape. At the other end of Maine Street sits the old mill buildings rescued from the scrap heap of history, contributing to the local […]

April 22, 2024, will be the 55th Earth Day. Let’s compare where we were on our sustainability journey in 1970, where we are in 2024, and where we’re headed for 2079 when we will have celebrated 55 more Earth Days. In 1970, we filled our cars with leaded fuel; we mixed lead into “regular” gasoline […]

Donald Trump is a lucky person. His social media website goes public, and he gains a bonanza worth billions. He is indicted for crimes and with each new charge, he seems to become more popular. He holds a campaign fundraiser and rakes in tens of millions of dollars from billionaires, even though some of that […]

Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual democratization that has occurred in higher education since the 1950s. Those of us who are academics and see education as crucial should be alarmed at the specter of partisan attacks, not to mention […]