Congress needs to do its duty and replenish the U.S. munition stockpile.

The White House is caught in an ethical bind. On the one hand it claims classified documents found when an FBI warrant was executed at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort are scandalous, while simultaneously claiming that classified documents found at President Biden’s home and at in an old office suite are not a big deal because Biden instructed his lawyers to go get them and inform the National Archives.

We are fortunate in Maine that we have legislators from both parties who do their best to work together to find solutions to benefit all of our citizens. Let us hope that spirit of cooperation will provide help to all our citizens.

In 43 years, I’ve learned a lot about how to live here. I’ve even been told twice by old-timers to call myself a Mainer. Closest I’ll come, though, is to say that my grandparents and mother are buried in Kennebunk, and that’s almost Maine. But to many Mainers, I’ll always be a flatlander.

This fight isn’t about blocking history or erasing the country’s sins but drawing a line between hifalutin political advocacy and thorough, truthful instruction in the American past.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is part of the fierce reaction to the civil rights movement and its drive to provide equal justice to all, by correcting the entrenched inequities in our system as they apply to women, gays and lesbians and particularly Blacks and other people of color. Every movement for reconstruction in this country has triggered a reaction — and DeSantis sees political benefit in making himself a leader of that reaction.

U.S. Rep. George Santos, it seems, cheated people of all races, ethnicities and religions — and he’s going to be top of the news through the 2024 election. That’s not good for Republicans in the suburbs, above all, his.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has quit, and not for the usual reasons of scandal or the all-purpose excuse “to spend more time with my family.” In a burst of honesty worthy of emulation by other leaders, Ardern has resigned because she says she has “nothing left in the tank.”

If there has been a regime shift in which stocks and bonds are more likely to move together than in opposite directions, and inflation proves hard to kill, and investments respond more to war and politics than constructive economic activity, all core portfolios are endangered.

One wants her to be as dynamic as she was decades ago. After all, there’s a good deal of nostalgia embedded in this tour.