Herb Paine
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for KJZZ
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Commentary: Arizona and Alaska — 2 states, 1 atmosphere, same crisis (opens the original)
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Here I am in the cool 40-50 degrees climes of Alaska after leaving the triple digit boiler of Phoenix. What a contrast! On the one hand, I’m relishing the natural beauty of the Land of the Midnight Sun. Here, otters glide along the flat, silver surface of the Inside Passage and an eagle flies above the tree line. Back home, it’s the desert landscape, saguaros, coyotes and hawks. As different as both regions are, I can’t help but reflect on what they have in common. And it’s caused me to do some
Commentary: What happens if democracy's ordinary remedies fail? The readers answer (opens the original)
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On Aug. 1, 2026, I asked the question we hope we never have to answer: What happens if the ordinary remedies of democracy fail? I didn’t expect a tidy answer. I got something better: a real argument, spread across a comment thread on social media and a parallel conversation on Substack, in which dozens of readers posed their perspectives. In inviting the conversation, I said at the outset that my Substack isn’t meant to occupy the political center. It’s meant to occupy the center of the conversa
Commentary: Masculinism: What boys are learning about manhood from the authoritarian right (opens the original)
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In my younger days, I thought a lot about what we, as a society, were doing to cultivate good men. I saw boys sidelined, teased, and stigmatized because they favored the arts rather than the gym. I watched the dominant model of manhood calcify around jocks, tough guys, and warriors. Working in Massachusetts correctional institutions and county houses of corrections, I met men whose boyhoods had been damaged in ways that would define their adulthoods. What struck me was how so many of them had ab
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