Two years ago, the two of us, a Muslim-American woman, and a Jewish-American man, wrote a book together, arguing that American Muslims and Jews cannot afford to allow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to divide our faith communities here at home. We believe in that principle today as much as we did then; but as we watch […]
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: The ‘who’ and the ‘why’ of chronic student absenteeism are key
According to one survey, one quarter of Black teens reported missing more than 15 days of school in the past school year
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Commentary: Pessimism is growing in Ukraine. Has the war with Russia reached a stalemate?
The s-word has begun to circulate.
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Commentary: Improved mental health is everybody’s responsibility
Our capacity for care continues to be outstripped by demand.
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Commentary: Business investment in climate solutions should be promoted, incentivized
Greenhush? Counterproductive. Greenwash? Even worse. Greenrush? Now we’re talking.
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Jim Fossel: If only that was the end of Pine Tree Power
Has the idea been killed by the election results of last Tuesday? Not even close.
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The Maine Millennial: When will we stop ignoring mental health care?
You can’t fall through the cracks of a system that doesn’t exist.
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Commentary: Rise in infant mortality shows US needs to take better care of moms
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer a horrible statistic: The infant death rate in the U.S. rose by 3% in 2022 to 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, the first significant increase in about 20 years. It’s too soon to know if this is the start of a terrible […]
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Commentary: Don’t ban assault weapons. Do this instead.
Politicians and gun rights advocates who claim that gun control doesn’t work have forgotten their history.
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Commentary: Gun case forces Supreme Court to confront its own illogic
The good news is that the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision that said police can’t confiscate guns from domestic abusers. The bad news is that the high court’s 2022 Bruen decision, which guided the lower court’s ruling, remains firmly in place. Bruen is among the worst-reasoned Supreme Court decisions […]