70% of Americans believe Roe v. Wade should remain the law of the land. Retweet if you're one of them.

Maine Scholars Strategy Network (bsky: @scholars.org) member Steve Barkan has a letter to the editor in the The New York Times on the post-Dobbs legal situation of those facing prosecution for violation of state-level abortion bans. See below or at: nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opi…

Republicans block cap on insulin costs for millions of patients ... really have a political death wish. Or just don't like their voters very much. I mean... insulin??? washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08…

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Americans, No Matter the State They Live In, Die Younger Than People in Many Other Countries | Commonwealth Fund commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/amer…

Evidence shows that lengthy prison terms do not have a significant deterrent effect on crime & divert resources from more effective investments, yet over half of people in US prisons are serving sentences of 10+ years. Important new report by Nazgol Ghandnoosh bit.ly/3TVgTMk

Why I think 2025 will look like 2019 nytimes.com/2022/10/04/opi…

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if Republicans would stop inciting violence crime might go down

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Speaking with moral clarity against the terrorism of Hamas is not about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is not about geopolitics. It is about human decency. It is indecent to blame the victims of terrorism rather than the terrorists themselves. It is indecent to glorify

Op-ed in Boston Globe Opinion: Maine’s gun laws need common-sense updates trib.al/uEMTEh8

Here are my thoughts on being a researcher studying mass violence, and suddenly living in a community experiencing a mass shooting. I never thought these worlds would collide. There is no script. thedailybeast.com/i-study-mass-s…

Last week, a gunman took the lives of 18 people and left 13 others injured in a mass shooting in Maine. In this The Boston Globe OpEd, Michael Rocque of Bates College writes about the need for common-sense updates to Maine's gun laws. Read now: bostonglobe.com/2023/10/26/opi…

FINALLY. This is a headline that just ran in Forbes. Absolute perfection. Calls out Trump exactly like it is. I hope every media outlet & journalist will read this & start calling it out just like this. THIS is how it’s done & is journalism excellence. More of this, please.

Major papers should call on Trump to drop out of the race following that interview with the National Association of Black Journalists.

Some Jewish voters are upset Harris chose Walz over Josh Shapiro Many voters don't know that Walz wrote his masters thesis on how to improve education on the Holocaust. As governor, he pushed for a mandate to teach about the Holocaust in Minnesota schools jta.org/2024/08/06/pol…

Where is Donald Trump? Is Trump ill? Is Trump still fit to be the Republican nominee? Why isn't Donald Trump on the campaign trail? What is the Trump campaign hiding about Trump's cognitive decline? Am I doing this right, The New York Times The Washington Post @cnn?