Shay 
For the better part of the last year (and longer, actually), as the country has navigated the turbulent waters of the Trump administration and the weak and ineffectual Congress and Supreme Court, our attention has been focused on the U.S. Senate races as a salve to save us from the chaos. Yet, while changing the …
American politics in recent years has become unserious entertainment with very serious and life-changing consequences. Something broke when the country elected its first Black president in 2008, and it has never been put back together. Perhaps it’s because white Americans did the lazy work of assuming that a Black president meant that our nation’s race …
I had a bizarre exchange today that, in more normal and simpler times, I would’ve ranked a nothing-burger—a weird white guy being weird. However, we are living in the era of frozen water agents in our communities across the country and in Maine, they are still here daily, terrorizing and kidnapping people. But let me …