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Trump's Quiet War On Iran Gets Loud

The US Drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 2, 2020, seemed to many Americans like the start of a war.

Indoor Track Teams Prepare For Championship

BLUE HILL—The George Stevens Academy boys and girls indoor track teams closed out their regular seasons on February 1 with a meet against both large and small schools. The girls took fourth overall out of eight teams, while the boys came in sixth out of nine teams.

The NUCLEAR FAMILY Was a MISTAKE

The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half-century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

The New Rules of Music Snobbery

Hulu’s High Fidelity reboot captures the end of elitist condescension and the rise of fervent eclecticism.

The Art of Second Chances

In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms.

The Abortion Doctor and His Accuser

When a reproductive- rights activist accused one of the most respected physicians in the movement of sexually assaulting her, everyone quickly took sides. The divide exposed differences among women that are typically expressed only in private.

THE 2020 DISINFORMATION WAR

DEEPFAKES, ANONYMOUS TEXT MESSAGES, POTEMKIN LOCAL-NEWS SITES, AND OPPOSITION RESEARCH ON REPORTERS—A FIELD GUIDE TO THIS YEAR’S ELECTION AND WHAT IT COULD DO TO THE COUNTRY

IN PRAISE OF THE HERD MENTALITY

How the human instinct to conform could help us meet the challenge of the climate crisis

Stonington Salt Shed Comes In Under Budget

Town responds to unfunded mandate to protect groundwater

Can You Still Trust Nate Silver?

The leader of the data revolution believes he got 2016 right—and the rest of the media is in danger of getting 2020 wrong.

The Supreme Court's Enduring Bias

Over the past half-century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law.

Abraham Lincoln's Radical Moderation

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t

THE MUCKRAKERS

How a bunch of gutsy Ukrainian journalists helped light the fuse that led to Trump’s impeachment

SOUTHERN STRATEGY

Jaime Harrison is running to unseat Lindsey Graham. Does he have the blueprint to flip the Senate?

GHOST STORIES

Hooking up while trans at the latest frontier of misogyny

FIELD OF SCHEMES

Are foreign fraudsters undermining American organic meat?

Wiped Out

The hunt for a missing bacterium that might cure our modern ailments

The Man Who Would Beat King

Can a Big Ag–bashing minor league baseball player take down Congress’ most ardent white nationalist? Not if Republicans get him first.

Of Two Minds

By insisting that boys' and girls' brains are wired differently, proponents of single-sex education are selling all kids short.

'The Black Hills are Not for Sale'

The Lakota are fighting to protect their most sacred sites from mining—again.

GSA swim team heads into post-season

PVCs this weekend, state championship follows

Fire consumes Brooklin house

No casualties, structure destroyed

Pucks fly as teams tear up the ice for annual tournament

BLUE HILL—Ice chips scattered under the skates of a lively gang of hockey enthusiasts at the Peninsula skating rink on Saturday, February 1, for the annual Peninsula Pond Hockey tournament.

Eagles, Mariners rock GSA gym in overtime game

Both teams headed to playoffs.

US Says Chinese Military Stole Masses Of Americans' Data

Four members of the Chinese military have been charged with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens of millions of Americans, the Justice Department said this week, blaming Beijing for one of the largest hacks in history to target consumer data.

US On Track For First $1 Trillion Budget Deficit Since 2012

The U.S. budget deficit through the first four months of this budget year is up 19% from the same period a year ago, putting the country on track to record its first $1 trillion deficit since 2012.

GSA girls basketball team falls in prelim

FORT FAIRFIELD—The George Stevens Academy girls basketball team’s season came to an end on February 11, after a 27-54 loss at No. 3 Fort Fairfield in a Class C North preliminary game.

Young cheerleaders bring home title

Island Cheer and Tumble spurs community support

Eagles end indoor track season

ORONO—The George Stevens Academy boys and girls track teams wrapped up their season on Saturday, February 8, with the Penobscot Valley Conference Small Schools championship at the University of Maine in Orono.

Saturday night special: DI-S girls at Cross Center

DEER ISLE— The girls basketball team has a 16-2 record and is in second place. Our only 2 losses were close games with Greenville.