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.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion

View from Away: It’s not us vs. them: Attorney General Barr should not threaten communities that question police conduct

Attorney General William Barr showed a bad grasp of history and modern thinking with his veiled warning to communities not to criticize the police. His comments show a tin ear to the committed efforts by law enforcement agencies across the nation to improve relations with the communities they serve. Barr made his remarks — of […]

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Commentary: Cracks showing in NATO

by Ivo Daalder

There are really only three ways NATO could end: • The United States, NATO’s most powerful member, could walk away. • Europe, led by one of the continent’s larger and more ambitious nations, could break off to try and fend for itself. • Or an outlying member could throw a wrench in the alliance’s decision-making […]

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Martin Schram: Give yourself a rare impeachment gift – truth

by Martin Schram

The most important truth that reaches Official Washington each day appears not in a bold black breaking-news headline, but in small italic letters just below The Washington Post’s proud front-page, top-o’-the screen nameplate: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” And as we all know: a democracy-killing Darkness descends most rapidly, and lethally, when people are willfully determined […]

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