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Columns

Published
July 10, 2022

The Maine Millennial: Men get to enjoy sex without consequence. Why can’t women do the same?

The only way to really reduce abortions is birth control and sexual education.
Published
July 10, 2022

Maine Voices: Court erases last vestige of anti-Catholic law

The bigoted, anti-immigrant policies of Maine's James G. Blaine was behind Maine's ban on public funding for religious schools.
Published
July 10, 2022

Insight: The dangerous pull of conspiracy theories

In a world plagued with doubt, it's a relief to feel that you know what's really going on.
Published
July 10, 2022

Maine Observer: Learning (the hard way) to eat Italian food

A white shirt and a table cloth were the collateral damage of this valuable lesson.
Published
July 10, 2022

Commentary: Former Trump chief of staff: Republicans should watch Jan. 6 hearings

The testimony provided by fellow Republicans is damming, and we all should pay attention.

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Published
July 9, 2022

Commentary: Boris Johnson and the longest goodbye

Johnson's political assassination has been as slow and incompetent as the conspiracy to kill Rasputin in 1916.
Published
July 9, 2022

Maine Voices: Supreme Court decision based on sadly outdated ideology

The shock of the Dobbs decision should mobilize people to fight for the whole range of human rights now under threat.
Published
July 8, 2022

Maine Voices: Court puts abortion in the political arena, where it belongs

In a democracy, elected officials, not judges, should pass laws that resolve complex moral, spiritual and cultural disputes.
Published
July 7, 2022

Commentary: The fight against excessive surveillance continues in Maine and across the country

An effort to close Maine's 'fusion center' stalled in the Legislature, but efforts to limit police use of spy technology have not gone away.
Published
July 6, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Celebrity convictions don’t mean justice for most

R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell may be headed to prison, but the vast majority of sexual assaults never show up in court.