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Our View: Poliquin hurt Mainers with vote for tax bill

by The Editorial Board November 19, 2017November 17, 2017

Huge windfalls for corporations will not trickle down to most of the people he represents.

Don’t be fooled that the bill will cost only $1.5 trillion, or that provisions will have a ‘sunrise’ and ‘sunset.’

by Leonard Pitts November 15, 2017November 14, 2017

His backers won’t change; they can only be defeated. Last week’s voting results show that’s not impossible.

by Robert Lyons November 12, 2017November 10, 2017

A historian’s commentary wrongly dismisses the value of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith’s famous address.

by The Baltimore Sun November 11, 2017November 10, 2017

The party shouldn’t expect anti-Trump fervor to substitute for a unifying agenda in 2018.

by George Will The Washington Post November 10, 2017November 10, 2017

Today’s bill, which is 429 pages long, is an implausible instrument of simplification.

by Dana Milbank The Washington Post November 9, 2017November 8, 2017

This time, the cultural warrior lost, as he sorely deserved to.

by Kevin M. Kruse Special to The Washington Post October 29, 2017October 27, 2017

Jeff Flake’s Senate floor speech calls to mind Margaret Chase Smith’s similarly stirring, yet ineffectual, address in the same chamber.

But the main theme of their criticism should not be Trump’s depravity but the nation’s lost opportunity.

by Cynthia Dill October 15, 2017October 19, 2017

A public servant dedicated to connecting directly with voters needs party support less.