In Alcoholics Anonymous, the first step toward recovery is to acknowledge that you have a problem. You can’t get better until you admit that you’re not well. But our universities won’t do that. Look no further than the recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights of Expression, or FIRE. Surveying more than 6,000 faculty […]
Ben Bragdon
Staff Writer
Ben Bragdon is managing editor of the Sun Journal. Prior to that, he was deputy managing editor for news at the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Ben was previously editorial page editor for those newspapers and Central Maine Sunday for more than 10 years. Before that, he was managing editor for weekly newspapers at Current Publishing in Westbrook. He began his career as a reporter at the Piscataquis Observer in Dover-Foxcroft and editor at the Moosehead Messenger in Greenville. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Boston University.
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Douglas Rooks: Revisiting the Concord Guide to America
Looking to the past for an old compass point, the columnist writes.
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Commentary: Separating science and the humanities is hurting us
Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail fungus specialist examined its feet, and prescribed antibiotics. A climate change specialist didn’t see the elephant because he was fixated on […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
View from Away: Biden’s ‘kids for cash’ clemency is offensive to victims, and to justice
The commutation of the prison sentence of former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan by President Joe Biden is a disgraceful act that dishonors the children and families victimized by the judge and his accomplice, Mark Ciavarella, during the notorious “kids for cash” scandal two decades ago. It is a particularly bitter irony that the scandal […]
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Commentary: A peaceful transfer of power — you can thank Biden
Did you miss it? On Tuesday, the electoral college made official what we’ve known for six weeks: Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris for the presidency. Americans could be excused for being unaware that electors met in all 50 state capitals and the District of Columbia to cast votes. In nearly every presidential election year, the […]
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Patrisha McLean: Call domestic violence strangulation by its real name
Strangulation, the highest predictor of domestic violence murder, is unfortunately seen everywhere, the advocate writes.
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Commentary: The Trump-Xi bromance has a chance in 2025
The relationship between the U.S. and China can get better, but timing and tone are everything, the columnist writes.
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Matthew Yglesias: Biden values public unions above public service
On his way out the door and just before the holidays, President Joe Biden has presented some 42,000 federal workers with a generous gift: a five-year contract that protects their right to work from home for at least part of the week. This the endgame to a saga that has been playing out for most […]
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View from Away: After toppling Assad, Syrians face a new day — and remind the world’s democracies of freedoms often taken for granted
Americans love to talk about liberty. But if we’re completely honest with ourselves, the bulk of our conversations about individual freedom, or more precisely, the loss of it, are abstract — most of us, thankfully, have known nothing else but unfettered self-determination. We may be frustrated with government policies as varied as pandemic-era restrictions on […]
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Augusta’s Buffalo Wild Wings GO opens Monday
The 1,800-square-foot restaurant has 20 employees and will be open daily 11 a.m.-11p.m., the company said.