Universal recognition laws treat professional licenses like a driver’s license. We don’t make people moving between states sit for a permit exam and pass a driving course; rather we trust other states’ ability to screen out poor drivers. We should trust them the same way for occupational licensing.

Time was, and not so long ago, that “political moderate” and “white middle class” were almost interchangeable. That may no longer be true as more and more whites push to the fringes of left and right.

Faced with a distraught and abusive man, they resorted, not to force, but to compassion. We’ll be a better nation when that becomes the norm. And not the news.

If Gov. Justice manages to navigate the legal challenges that will likely come from his proposed cut in state taxes, West Virginia could be a model for other states and even the federal government. This would require many voters to get off the gravy train and take more responsibility for themselves.

From the beginning of the COVID-19/Wuhan virus epidemic, China’s communist government has lied about the disease, its origin and its transmissibility. It has also avoided an accurate accounting of the contagion’s health and economic consequences within the Peoples Republic, always insisting Chinese Communist Party leadership has minimized the pandemic’s effects.

From the outset, the minimum wage was designed to be a living wage. Roosevelt had long championed the “change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment,” but he had to rely on voluntary compliance from industry.

Our grassroots group, Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights, has tried in multiple ways for two years to engage Sen. Angus King regarding Israel’s false narrative and brutal policies. We focused on King, since we believed he would entertain new information and alter his heretofore-ardent support of Israel. We were wrong.

There is now an effort to brand the filibuster as inherently an instrument of hatred and repression. The filibusters of civil-rights legislation in the mid-20th century are justly notorious, but the tactic has often been used to progressive ends, most recently thwarting as much of Trump’s legislative agenda as possible.