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When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 07:04
The protesters in Ukraine are showing us on a very public stage that criticism free from harassment and ridicule of the actions of public elected ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Winning is the short view of Political gamesmanship.Fake news creation is part and parcel of it. Environmental contamination is the long view when ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:50
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Citizens are being reminded these days of everything they don't have control over. Any nutritionist will tell you that the one thing you always ha...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 04:02
Some stories are meant to be written, other stories are meant to be told.
Gary Springer’s story is emotionally uplifting, but heart wrenching to t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 21:02
In Maine, Bass fishing on West Grand Lake is a destination respite for many, including Mr. Nouriel Roubini, the legendary economist who was almost ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 03:18
Many six year olds believe that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President of the NRA, is of the same mind...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 04:13
I am a licensed psychologist. One question routinely asked is; "Do you have guns in your home?" If they say yes, I ask, "Are they in a locked cabi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:35
It is the question all of them ask over and over, the one that Rep. Todd Aken brought up. Was it a legitimate rape? It's not just the question ad...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 04:06
The Republican attack on women, a not- so thinly veiled attack on credibility, the females, that is, is not new. Women, you may remember, require ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 04:46
Delayed gratification has changed. Social science experiments often mirror cultural values and our best learners absorb them well. They do what th...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 02:57
Eleven years after I posted the first commentary for The River is Wide series, this remains true: Speaking and seeking the truth is not cynical.
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 03:04
