Over the past five decades, American taxpayers have invested more than $7 billion to finance hundreds of projects in humanitarian relief and development in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all under the banner of “ peacebuilding.” But the Biden administration is currently providing the weaponry that is killing the very people the government […]
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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Commentary: Some Americans (but not you and me) can avoid taking responsibility for their mistakes
Suppose that when you did something bad, you could split off another you to deal with it, basically by dying and taking the punishment with it. You can’t. But you could if you were a corporation, and would if you were a corporation owned by Charles Koch and you wanted to avoid possibly paying lots […]
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Commentary: Post-Roe America’s national shame: 65,000 forced pregnancies
It’s now been about a year and a half since the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. Over that time, new data has been gradually filling in the picture of what access to reproductive health care looks like in much of the US. And the image forming is increasingly grim. Consider […]
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Our View: Lessons of school sports more important than score
All the tinkering in the world won’t keep some schools from having good years when others aren’t.
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Commentary: Texas’ border problem just got worse, thanks to the Supreme Court, Biden
The Texas border has been chaos since President Joe Biden took office. His policies unleashed unprecedented waves of migration into the U.S., and the surge isn’t slowing down. In one single day in mid-December, there were 12,600 Border Patrol encounters with migrants trying to enter illegally, a record number. This is too many for law […]
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Commentary: Housing is a human right, not a privilege
Homelessness in the United States surged by a record 12% between January 2022 and January 2023, according to a new report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the world’s wealthiest nation, how does this happen, and what can be done to remedy it? The primary reason people are homeless is straightforward: They […]
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Commentary: COVID-19, RSV and flu cases have risen. Should you be concerned?
With the new year, three upper respiratory viruses have begun to spread among Americans. COVID-19, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, have all been infecting people and making them sick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been doing what it does well, which is the tracking of these viruses. So where […]
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Commentary: Haley’s voters will haunt Trump until November
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley lost the New Hampshire primary to Donald Trump by double digits Tuesday. It’s hard to foresee Haley competing more aggressively, or with better results, in any state in the near future. She hasn’t yet quit the field, but it appears to have quit her. Still, exit polls, along with […]
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Tom Waddell: Christians are standing up for true religious freedom
Christian nationalists are bent on destroying our democratic republic.