I understand why Sen. Angus King helped end the government shutdown: He couldn’t bear to see people go hungry. It was a politically risky move in an era when few congresspeople have or display courage. But for it to be any more than a temporary gesture, King must now end his statesmanlike relationship with Sen. […]

Last year, I had the unusual opportunity to participate in a disputation held by the Peucinian Society, the undergraduate organization that featured prominently in your Nov. 12 story about free speech at Bowdoin College (“How Bowdoin College came to mirror the country’s national free speech debate). These gatherings, at which challenging propositions are dissected and […]

Sen. Angus King’s comments, as reported in this paper, only added to the steam coming out of my ears after the recent capitulation by seven Democrats and Sen. King, an independent, to the Republicans’ mean-spirited agenda. Sen. King justified his vote to undermine a unified Democratic Party strategy to leverage support of the Republican budget […]