I’m in hiding again, as I always am this time of the year. We’re in the thick of Girl Scout Cookie season, after all, and I’m on my winter diet. I’m easy prey for the young, highly skilled sales ladies who will no doubt one day run our companies and government organizations with tremendous cunning […]

Throughout her five years as governor, Janet Mills has preferred caution to boldness. Her approach has yielded results. As she pointed out in last week’s State of the State address, Maine has experienced the highest economic growth in New England since she took office in 2019, and has solid population increases for the first time […]

THE CONVERSATION — Members of the U.S. Capitol Police targeted with “brutal violence” on Jan. 6, 2021, 25 historians of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, the San Francisco Taxpayers Association and dozens of other parties have weighed in at the U.S. Supreme Court with their opinions about the case that has the potential to disqualify Donald Trump from the […]

THE CONVERSATION — Collaboration with the enemy is a common and often painful part of armed conflict. It is also an issue in which I have both a professional and personal interest. The war in Ukraine is, in many ways, a transparent conflict, with cellphone images, drone cameras and satellite imagery feeding a flow of data to […]

At least a dozen countries, including the U.S., have suspended funding to the UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for delivering aid to Palestinian refugees. This follows allegations made by Israel that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack. The UNRWA responded by dismissing all accused employees and opening an investigation. While the seriousness of […]

The U.S. faces a particularly historic choice. It has always faced the need to balance the priority given to personal freedom with the responsibility for the community. This year, it is challenged to renew that balance. Of the two priorities, personal freedom had greater weight in the years between the country’s founding and the Great […]

In nine months, Americans will select a president, choosing between two candidates despite numerous poll findings that a majority of voters prefer neither one. All suspense has been drained from the traditional primary process as Democrats unite behind President Joe Biden while former president Donald Trump has chased his competition out of the field and […]

Driving down a local highway today a large truck roared past me and splattered a huge mess of brown muck on my windshield and when I tried to wipe it clean with sprayed water and wipers it made a blurred, streaked mess on the glass. I pulled over to clean it by hand and when […]

“It’s occurred to me on countless occasions today that if anyone spoke to my wife or my daughter or my mother or my five sisters the way Mr. Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person.” — Mike Lee, U.S. Senator for Utah “Donald Trump is a con man. He is erratic. He […]