I come here not to condemn Amy Cooper, the white woman who called police and falsely claimed that an African American man named Christian Cooper was attacking her, but rather to praise Christian Cooper, who had done nothing more than ask her to leash her dog. The confrontation happened in New York’s Central Park, where […]
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Laurel Libby: Local restaurants should be allowed to open
As a nurse and member of a federal disaster relief team for over a decade, I learned first-hand how slowly the wheels of government turn, even in a crisis. This is not a critique of any particular administration or political party. It’s simply an acknowledgement of the fact that the larger an institution, the more […]
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Janet Mills: Protecting the health, safety of Mainers
As governor, it is my responsibility to protect the health and safety of Maine people, and I spend every waking moment of my life thinking, questioning, wrestling with how we can accomplish that and how we can do it better than the day before. I do it because, at the end of all of this, […]
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Rich Lowry: The return of the tea party
It’s 2009 again, or feels like it. That was when spontaneous, grassroots protests against overweening government sprang up and were widely derided in the media as dangerous and wrong-headed. The protesters then were inveighing against Obamacare; the protestors now are striking out against the coronavirus lockdowns. The anti-lockdown agitation shows that, despite the revolution in […]
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Leonard Pitts: George Floyd’s death raises an old question: ‘How long?’
“I know you’re asking today, how long will it take?” Thus spake Martin Luther King Jr. at the end of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march. He went on to assure his soul-weary people that the moment of their deliverance was just a little ways down the road. “However difficult the moment,” he said, […]
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Ryder Kessler: Support your neighbors by working the polls
In a time of crisis, young people can step up to protect our elections.
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Not even the punctuation
It was almost 40 years ago I learned a couple exceedingly difficult and expensive lessons about our legal system. I had always been taught that people were required to tell the truth in court and legal proceedings. I expected that. Then I learned that lawyers, at least some of them, define the truth as: “Whatever […]
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Froma Harrop: Second homes become primary residences
When the pandemic hit this winter, city people with second homes moved into them. This upset the rhythm of beach, lake and mountain communities that attract a lot of “summer people” — but not until the summer. As for winter destinations — Florida, Arizona, Texas or any ski area — the snowbirds seem to be […]
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Ben Lounsbury: Wearing a mask correctly is extremely important
I was stimulated to write this column by an event I witnessed a week ago while waiting in line to enter a grocery store. The young lady who was allowing just the right number of people to enter the store was wearing a mask and sitting in a lawn chair near the entry door. A […]
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Austin Bay: What tasks does Xi have for China’s military?
On May 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping told senior officers of the Peoples Liberation Army and Peoples Armed Police Force to increase “preparedness for armed combat” as well as other military tasks. It is a chilling thought, but Xi may have several “tasks” in mind, for both the PLA and the PAP. Throttling Hong Kong […]