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By RANDALL BALMER

In the late 1980s, while I was teaching at Columbia University, I received an urgent request to attend a meeting at Union Theological Seminary. I don’t recall everyone who was in the room, but the half dozen or so in attendance included several...

By ARTHUR HOLCOMBE

A New Year should be a time for looking ahead and a time for hope. Securing peace and hope requires us to unite to stop the terrible slaughter in the Middle East before this killing drags us all into yet another world war. We can unite by building on...

By SCOTT BROWN

The resignation of University of Pennsylvania President, Elizabeth Magill, apparently the result of pressure from wealthy donors, is a dire warning to those who cherish free speech and academic freedom. Prior to her testimony before Congress on Dec....

By WILLEM LANGE

The narration, a modern version of the second chapter of Luke, began the old familiar Christmas story. Mary and Joseph shuffled down the church aisle on cue, Mary cuddling a bundle clearly intended to be the baby Jesus, and Joseph strangely...

By HOUSING FIRST VERMONT

All Vermonters deserve a safe and affordable place to live, yet rising rents, low rental vacancy and mounting evictions are pushing an unprecedented number of Vermonters into streets, cars and dangerous living situations. Children, people with...

By CELESTE BELISLE and MAGGIE MELLO

The proposal to build a new Woodstock Union High School and Middle School is the talk of the town and of the hallways, the school board, and the broader community. School architectural designs hang on the wall in the lobby, reassuring students that...

By CHUCK DOUGLAS

Republicans have lost the Senate and the White House in the last three years because our leading candidate is running for revenge, not for us.If you don’t want Biden’s failed policies to win again, then how about backing a candidate who beats him by...

By RUSSELL HIRSCHLER

The work of the Upper Valley Trails Alliance is based on four central tenets: equitable access, conservation and sustainability, physical and mental health, and economic development. Together with our partners, they support the Power of the Alliance....

By SOREN STETTENHEIM

Over the past summer, I used a pickup truck nearly every day to transport materials for my house-painting job in Vermont. The extra cargo space of the truck bed was essential for carrying tools and supplies. My experience made clear to me that pickups...

By DAN MACKIE

Tis the season to be as merry as we can manage. It’s fair to say that political and cultural events in 2023 have left us with something of a glee shortage. The latest polls say good will to men is not trending upward.And even Santa Claus is affected...

By PAUL MANGANIELLO

On Dec. 21, we will celebrate the Winter Solstice, the longest night and shortest day of the year. Here in the Upper Valley, it is usually a very cold evening. It is also, the annual commemorative candlelight vigil to remember those homeless...

By JAMES HEFFERNAN

Though yet another deer season has just come and gone, it is now open season on Ivy League presidents. Dartmouth’s Sian Beilock has so far been spared, but Elizabeth Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, was made to resign on...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Former President Donald Trump returns to New Hampshire this weekend, for his first campaign stop in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state in over a month.The former president will headline a rally at the Whittemore Center, which is the...

By NICOLE HELLER

The Granite State is experiencing a long-predicted workforce shortage, which is related to an aging New Hampshire population and has been exacerbated by fewer residents who are employed or looking for employment than during pre-pandemic years. Given...

By WILLIAM FISCHEL

Sunday’s article about the Dartmouth men’s basketball team’s effort to unionize may have left some erroneous impressions. I offer here my own perspective as a retired Dartmouth professor and former academic advisor to the men’s team. I have not...

By DON TINNEY

At a time when our state’s children need us more than ever, Gov. Phil Scott last week returned to his same, tired rhetoric about why we can’t give our public schools — and the people who learn and teach in them — the support they need. With the...

By RANDALL BALMER

As a historian, I’ve long been fascinated by the parallels and the contrasts between the Roman Catholic papacy and the United States presidency.Let’s start with the obvious and the superficial. Both offices have been populated only with men, the...

By STEVE NELSON

Recent New York Times columns by David Brooks and Pamela Paul identified what they believe is a chasm between “liberalism” and “progressivism.” Their theses are echoed throughout the media, often in allusion to stultifying political correctness on...

By JAMES A. W. HEFFERNAN

As I write these words, the prostate cancer cells that have invaded much of my skeleton are slowly but surely working to end my life. For more than six years, a succession of new drugs has enabled me to cope fairly well with my cancer, but since...

By JONATHAN STABLEFORD

Lately, the notion of sleep, particularly the discovery that I seem to need more of it in this stage of my life, have been rattling around in my mind. I understand that my body needs sleep, and I’ll admit to a cowardly surrender to it at the end of a...