Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” In context, the president was trying to make the point that in addition to our own hard work, others contributed to whatever level of success we have attained. The president suggested no […]
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Alexander Kostin: Maine should support legal online betting
With legalized sports betting on the horizon for Maine, many in New England are forecasting the success of the new venture. Most legislators support an untethered approach to licensing, meaning mobile operators won’t have to be attached to physical properties and can open as soon as they are able. Judging on how other states have […]
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Susan Collins: We must support the education professionals of today
According to a story in the Sun Journal (Aug. 6), the school department in Maine’s second-largest city had dozens of job openings with the start of a new school year just days away. The situation highlights the growing problem of a shortage of education professionals in schools across the nation. Data from the U.S. Department […]
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William Whitney: Nothing moral about U.S. behavior in Venezuela
On Aug. 5, President Donald Trump authorized the seizure of Venezuelan government properties in the United States. He also sanctioned foreign companies and foreign banks doing business with Venezuela. These measures will aggravate suffering already worsened by U.S. economic sanctions. The death rate in Venezuela was 31 percent higher in 2018 than in 2017, according […]
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Sally Pipes: Technology can make rural America healthier
Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a plan to improve health care in rural America. In a statement posted on his campaign website, he wrote, “Rural Americans are getting sicker and dying younger than people in cities.” He is right, but his plan misses the mark. Buttigieg wants to spend billions of taxpayer dollars […]
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Froma Harrop: On setting vehicle efficiency, California will win
It was almost the weirdest Trump play of the week. The president’s bizarre threats against carmakers fell in the shadows after he called off a meeting with the Danish prime minister because she wouldn’t discuss selling him Greenland. What we and the Danes initially interpreted as a clownish stunt turned creepy after Trump canceled his […]
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Robert Samuelson: Companies should tend to their traditional tasks
WASHINGTON — We have been here before: one of those portentous moments when corporate America promises to be more socially “responsible.” These episodes are, it seems, a permanent feature of modern capitalism. Just this week, the Business Roundtable, a group representing the leaders of major corporations, issued a “statement on the purpose of a corporation” […]
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Leonard Pitts: Republicans seeing education as the enemy
You would think it would be the one thing we could all agree upon. Life grows ever more complex. Planetary overheating threatens a future of floods, food shortages and mass migration. We carry supercomputers in our pockets. Robots are taking our jobs. So you would think, for all the partisan and ideological rancor in this […]
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Paul Waldman: Democratic voters should stop thinking about ‘electability’
By Paul Waldman The Washington Post If you talk to the reporters who are following Democratic presidential candidates on the campaign trail, they will tell you that, while the race is extremely fluid and voters express interest in lots of the candidates, the one generating the most passionate excitement is unquestionably Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. […]
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Austin Bay: Hong Kong confronts Beijing’s disinformation tweets
Riots! Dark forces! Terrorism! American gangsters! The allegations are propaganda smears threatened dictators routinely employ to tar opponents and shift blame. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and communist China frequently slandered the U.S. as a gangster state. The Nazis and communists used 1930s Hollywood gangster flicks as visual evidence. In 2019, communist China’s propagandists are […]