There’s developed a mindless war against public monuments, and it needs taming.
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Cal Thomas: DC is already a ‘state’
The Founders specifically prohibited the District from becoming a state, but who listens to them anymore as rioters deface and pull down some of their statues and liberal judges rewrite the Constitution to conform to the spirit of the age?
Robert Samuelson: The obstacles to economic recovery
We are dealing with unfamiliar economic and epidemiological phenomena. We should not be paralyzed by our ignorance — nor emboldened by our arrogance to do stupid things. It’s a tall order.
Rich Lowry: The coming 2020 train wreck
If Trump loses, there’s unlikely to be a concession phone call — one of the little grace notes of our democracy — and he will argue that he was undone by Democratic cheating. Heck, he won in 2016 and still maintained he’d been cheated.
Vote ‘yes’ on Question 1 on July 14 to strengthen Maine’s economy
There’s no question that the big city will always be alluring for some workers, but with the freedom to build a different life and to work from anywhere, there is no place in the world better to consider than Maine – as long as there’s high speed internet connecting employees to their work.
Laura Fralich: Remembering Malaga Island: Reckoning with the racism in New Gloucester’s past
Friday, June 19, was Juneteenth, a day of celebration for many African Americans across the country. As celebrations for Juneteenth and protests against police brutality spread across the country, the issues and demands of protestors can seem distant and removed from small, rural, mostly white communities here in Maine. But Juneteenth is not just a […]
Sam May: Taking another look at Maine’s energy future
Richard Bennett, former chair of the Maine Republican Party, outlined in the Sun Journal (May 24) the brutal legal offensive unleashed by Central Maine Power and its U.S. parent, Avangrid. Bennett noted CMP “has filed suit against its customers to deny them the right for self-determination in a citizens’ initiative” and that this “is a […]
Marc Thiessen: Democrats’ shameful vote against Tim Scott’s police reform bill
At a time when much of our country seems to be descending into chaos — with violence in the streets, autonomous zones being declared and mobs pulling down statues — Americans want their elected leaders to behave like adults, work together and get something done.
China has been bungling its post-coronavirus foreign policy
China is not rising in a vacuum but in a region with other major countries such as Japan and India and Australia. Every action Beijing takes should be considered in relation to the reaction it causes in those nations’ capitals.
Leonard Pitts: Donald Trump or America?
If the party takes control of Congress in November, there will be an understandable push to prioritize issues like police reform or health care. And these things are critical. But nothing is more critical than passage of a new Voting Rights Act.