Ranked Choice (Instant Runoff) Voting will be on the ballot in November as a “direct initiative petition” that asks us to approve a process to get officials elected by a majority vote (over 50 percent). My Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary says that democracy is just that, “government by the people; especially: rule of the majority.” […]

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. — David Broder (1929-2011)

Every few months, it seems that a Bowdoin student is caught going to — or throwing — a party where attendees are encouraged to wear an ethnicity or culture as a costume. In the days and weeks that follow, questions are posed by people on and off campus about what racism really means, who is […]

As Maine goes, so goes the nation! At least that used to be the common phrase when it came to how the rest of the nation took its lead from our little state. Well, over the past week we have once again been thrust into that same national prominence. The pages of the Washington Post, […]

Today is Wednesday, March 9, the 69th day of 2016. There are 297 days left in the year. On this date: In 1661, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister of France, died, leaving King Louis XIV in full control. In 1796, the future emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, married Josephine de Beauharnais. (The couple […]