Like the 2001 terrorist attacks, the Donald Trump upset win threatens Americans’ sense of safety and continuity. The difference is that the 9/11 tragedy forged national unity, whereas the Trump election exposed grave internal discord. And a world that rushed to America’s side 15 years ago shudders at us now. Calmer opinion says we’ll get […]
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Election results spark fear in Somali community
Tuesday was a dark day for Muslims, African Americans, women and immigrants. Our nation now is divided. Some people feel that Tuesday night the American people lost against Donald Trump. Many citizens are frustrated, devastated and disgusted with Tuesday night’s results, and a lot of fear is growing in communities like mine. Many Muslim people are afraid […]
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Caring for veterans: A privilege and a duty
Veterans Day had its start as Armistice Day, marking the end of World War I hostilities. The holiday serves as an occasion to both honor those who have served in our armed forces and to ask whether we, as a nation, are doing right by them. In recent years, that question has been directed most […]
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The two sins revealed by this election
NEW YORK — For those of us who opposed Donald Trump, the response to Tuesday’s vote could be anger or honest reflection. I’m not by nature an angry person, so I will try the latter. Trump remade the political map with a huge surge of support from working-class whites, particularly in rural communities. Let me […]
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Republican Congress must work with President Trump
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump won fair and square and, as Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind and a chance to lead. It is therefore incumbent upon conservatives (like me) who have been highly critical of Trump to think through how to make a success of the coming years of […]
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Obama’s cultural liberalism sank Democrats
By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg View Under Bill Clinton’s leadership in the 1990s, the Democratic Party tried to appeal to culturally conservative white working-class voters without abandoning its liberal convictions. During the middle of the George W. Bush administration, Democrats revived that approach, running candidates opposed to abortion and gun control in some rural districts. But […]
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Trump can pull U.S. back from brink
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s impressive victory in Tuesday’s election offers him a rare opportunity to change the narrative. Secular progressive policies at home and abroad are not working. The establishment has had its chance — multiple chances, in fact — to fix things, but it has failed, or didn’t try, under Republican and Democratic […]
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Immigration policy poorly executed
The recent position about immigrants and refugees taken by Gov. Paul LePage and Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald illuminates one of those rare instances where local citizens get to see first-hand how inept federal policies affect their communities. Let me say, categorically, this writing is not about being anti-immigrant or anti-refugee. This is about common sense […]
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He won. Now what does Donald Trump do?
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post President-elect Donald Trump — the words do stick in my throat — looked and sounded in the early hours of Wednesday morning for the first time at least a little presidential. He was gracious to his opponent, saying we owe her a debt of gratitude for her service to […]
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Take time for grieving, then move on
Don’t ask us to congratulate him. Not today. Not next week. Not ever, probably. He stands for so much of what we’d dared to hope was behind us as a country. Bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia. He spewed it with reckless abandon, and now he is going to be our next president. Of course we are distancing […]