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June 6, 2021

The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment

The comedy that runs through Rivka Galchen's "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality.
Published
June 6, 2021

Bedside Table: How to get through tough times? This book, set in World War II, has some answers
Published
June 2, 2021

Leonard Pitts: Where Black history is concerned, America specializes in not knowing

Tulsa is the site of just one of the many massacres of Black Americans that whites have smothered in a conspiracy of silence.
Published
June 1, 2021

Our View: Maine senators should back D.C. statehood

The disenfranchisement of Washington’s largely Black population is a stain on our democracy.
Published
May 30, 2021

Maine Voices: Rancor of the 2020s echoes rage of the 1920s

Americans who believe that our culture and heritage are at grave risk are at odds with those who believe that our founding ideals are under attack.

Published
May 23, 2021

Insight: 100 years of immigration mistakes

A century-old law, inspired by discredited pseudoscience, has created President Biden’s border problems.
Published
May 19, 2021

Leonard Pitts: ‘What’s Going On’ still feels urgent, still feels now

We still don’t have an answer to the question Marvin Gaye asked 50 years ago.
Published
May 18, 2021

Photos of 1960s Portland: Politics, roadwork and doing the Twist

Residents witnessed much demolition over the decade, including that of Union Station.
Published
May 16, 2021

Bedside table: The classic novel, and its author, reimagined
Published
May 9, 2021

In helping her daughter bloom, a mother changed perceptions of autism

Clara Park successfully challenged the idea that "refrigerator" moms caused the condition.