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Maine Voices: Rethinking advice about being our best selves and being true to our selves Rep. Liz Cheney is an example of someone who’d rather risk disapproval with a candid ‘true self’ than put forward a more palatable ‘best self.’ By Barbara S. HeldSpecial to the Press Herald Share A professor at our small Maine college made some people a bit nervous. Jon Goldstein was then a big burly guy who rode a heavy motorcycle and spoke my native-Bronx “tell-it-like-it-is” language. We ...

Just in time for Easter, a new survey revealed an astonishing change in religious adherence in the US. For the first time in eight decades of asking about this issue, the polling organisation Gallup found that less than 50 per cent of American adults belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. This was down from 70 per cent in 1999, a proportion of the population that had remained almost constant since the late 1930s. Across the Atlantic, it has been reported that in the UK’s most recent censu...