Rich Lowry: Trump is wrong about ‘woke’

In the absence of a better word, “woke” is unavoidable — so unavoidable, in fact, that Trump used it describe the military on the same day he knocked it as nebulous and overused.

Austin Bay: Turkey chooses dictatorship, to the detriment of the Free World

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in the process of killing Turkey’s democracy, and that’s a very destructive historical crime with long-term ramifications throughout the developing world, especially in culturally Muslim nations.

Froma Harrop: Anatomy of an insanity

With her wild hair, peekaboo sweater and extraordinary claim that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her, Tara Reade merited considerable skepticism.

Cal Thomas: Soft vs. hard bigotry

If a Black child is told, overtly or covertly, he or she cannot succeed in life, many will internalize that message. Some will use it as an excuse to engage in crime, including the looting of stores and even shootings as we constantly witness in some of our major cities. Others will simply give up, or drop out of school, dooming far too many to a life of failure and antisocial behavior.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, June 11

Michael Boom: Don’t reward criminals who resist arrest

Our police officers’ jobs are hard enough, without the unnecessary burden of those who resist arrest when being arrested. How many monuments do we have to erect in order to praise those among us who resist, when they know full well they’re guilty as hell? Vigilante justice must not overshadow blind justice when people’s lives […]

Editorial cartoon for Saturday, June 10

Steve Bien: Work requirements do not work

A major part of the 11th-hour budget deal is the addition of work requirements to Food Stamp programs. Although Republicans brought us to a near catastrophe claiming all kinds of concerns about the budget, they showed their real interests at the final bargaining table. Right from the start, the real budget issues — defense, Medicare […]

Peg Hoffman: Paid leave bill offers security to Maine families

There are almost 200,000 Mainers caring for family members at home — over $2 billion of benefit to their communities. Of those who are lower wage workers, two thirds get no paid leave to do this, while almost 100% of those with higher wages receive some paid leave. Mainers with newborns, with parents whose health […]

Bob Stone: Passenger rail: Rickety ride to Debt-Land

Construction estimates have the cost of upgrading the rails, bridges, signaling, safety systems and one-time purchase of equipment at well over $250 million, and that estimate was built on pre-COVID dollars. It’s likely $300 million now and climbing, as federal spending will continue to push inflation to whatever levels.