Maine has bold clean-energy aspirations. This winter shows we’re a long way from kicking our fossil-fuel habit.
Op-Eds
Clarence Page: Has Biden bungled the border crisis? He’s not alone
We need a more sustainable approach — and lawmakers from both parties who can stop arguing long enough to seriously put it together and pass it.
Rich Lowry: The Trump-Biden embrace
Despite their enmity, both men want and need each other politically, whether that’s what the country is interested in or deserves, or not.
Cal Thomas: The other side of fame
Once you have attained fame you can never live as normal people do. Strangers want to approach you, some with good motives, some bad. The famous need security, locked gates, unlisted telephone numbers and people around to protect them and feed their egos.
Froma Harrop: Population shouldn’t be a Ponzi scheme
The idea that prosperity must rely on strong population growth is greatly exaggerated. At bottom, it’s a kind of demographic Ponzi scheme, whereby the success of a society is fostered by an ever-larger younger generation supporting the smaller one before.
Austin Bay: The Biden classified docs special prosecutor must look for Chinese spies
Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, appointed by the Department of Justice to investigate President Biden’s criminality, must expand his investigation to include potential Chinese Communist Party espionage. If Hur fails to do so, he becomes a national security liability.
Doug Rawlings: The Doomsday Clock is still ticking
Let us gather together as citizens living in a democracy and take responsibility for how we spend our time. The Doomsday Clock is an excellent way to measure that phenomenon as long as we don’t fall into the trap of helpless, hopeless despair.
Rich Lowry: No, you can’t believe ‘the science’
This faux science is not dispassionate but fired by a great moral certainty. It is not open to counter arguments and different interpretations but insists on only one answer to complicated or ambiguous questions. It is not rigorously neutral but aims to achieve cherished political goals.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Biden: Two years and counting
Today is the 731st, or middle, day of Biden’s 1,431-day term, an apt day for assessment. The word that comes to mind is mixed.
Froma Harrop: Egg prices are already cracking
Now, news on the tab for common consumer staples like eggs, gasoline and Thanksgiving turkeys draws attention and allows the creation of easy-to-make visuals. But so many of the headlines on the cost of eggs bang on the percentage rise in price while not mentioning the actual price.