Column: The Middle East’s power structure is changing

By ARTHUR HOLCOMBE

Israel is at the most dangerous period of its short modern history. One can say that its very survival is at stake. Since the tragic events of Oct. 7 when about 1,200 Israelis were killed in a surprise Hamas attack, Israel has been engaged in ever...

Forum for Sept. 7, 2024: Hartford schools need collaboration

Hartford Schools need collaborationI wanted to take an opportunity to share my reflections on the most recent Hartford School District Board meetings, as I left the last meeting feeling dismayed and heavy under cinder blocks of worry, wondering how...

Column: Dartmouth’s solution to the child care crisis misses the mark

By CASEY STOCKSTILL, KATHRYN CRAWFORD, JULIE ROSE and MARCELA Di BLASI

Dartmouth is actively considering converting a local treasure, the Dartmouth College Child Care Center (D4C), into a Bright Horizons center. Bright Horizons is one of a few national, corporate child care chains. It is a publicly traded, for-profit...

Forum for Sept. 6, 2024: Write in Ramsey

Write in Jenny RamseyI’ve served on the Plainfield School Board with Jenny Ramsey for the past four years, and suggest voters in Sullivan House District 7 write her in on the Democratic ballot on Sept. 10. Jenny believes in putting government to...

A Yankee Notebook: Giving labor unions their due

By WILLEM LANGE

Syracuse, N.Y., in the mid-1950s; a steamy Friday mid-afternoon in July. I had just climbed up for a water break from the manhole I was digging beneath the pavement when a little brown man approached — brown suit, brown shirt and tie, tobacco-brown...

Forum for Sept. 4, 2024: Vote for Karen Liot Hill

Support for Karen Liot HillIt has been our honor and privilege to serve with Karen Liot Hill on the Lebanon City Council for the past decade, and we are delighted that she is stepping up to serve on the state Executive Council for District 2. We’ve...

Forum for Sept. 5, 2024: Support for Warmington

Warmington is best option I am deeply disturbed by the recent unjust attacks lobbed against Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington by her primary opponent. The charges are incredibly misleading, and Joyce Craig should apologize. This is not how...

By the way: The false prophets of Christian nationalism

By RANDALL BALMER

Faithful America, the activist organization associated with mainline Protestantism, has issued what it calls its “most important list of top Christian-nationalist False Prophets ever.” What is Christian nationalism? After hearing the refrain about the...

Forum for Sept. 3, 2024: View on Maggie Goodlander

Impressed by GoodlanderI still remember the breakfast I had almost five years ago with Maggie Goodlander, where she wanted to talk more about my mental health awareness campaign than herself. I was finally able to steer the conversation to her and her...

Column: Imagining a Harris presidency

By NARAIN BATRA

About a month before President Joe Biden ended his bid for a second term, Rodney Smolla, a constitutional scholar and president of Vermont Law and Graduate School, gave a fascinating lecture at the United Church of Strafford about the 2024 election....

A Yankee Notebook: What is the ‘home of the brave’ so afraid of?

By WILLEM LANGE

Reading and listening to the news as I do, and remembering my classes in American history (the best of which was taught by a delightful Englishman who still wore his Oxford varsity crew sweater), I can’t help but wonder if the United States is a...

Forum for Aug. 31, 2024: New ballot, new politics

A ballot that reduces partisanshipApropos of the weekend editorial (“Rebuilding faith in democracy”; Aug. 24) and the cited book, “Tyranny of the Minority,” The People/NH Together is working to implement a Single ballot for all state and...

Forum for Aug. 30, 2024: Crane for Congress

Crane for CongressWe’ve lost common sense. But to me, illegals are illegal! And girls’ sports are for girls! The world’s upside down, so Republicans need to ask questions when people come into our state and throw around money with slick, folksy TV ads...

Forum for Aug. 29, 2024: GOP candidate in Vermont

Republican running for Vt. SenateI’m a local farmer in Weathersfield, proud wife of a combat veteran and mother of a middle-schooler, and I am running for the Vermont State Senate representing Windsor County.I believe that Vermont is at a crossroads...

Forum for Aug. 28, 2024: Goodlander’s donors

What do Goodlander’s PAC donors want?I just received my 11th piece of mail for Maggie Goodlander from a Washington, D.C. PAC. Two dark money PACs are flooding my mailbox with fliers for her, and by the time this letter appears in the paper, that...

Editorial: Conservatives in NH play fast and loose with ed funds

Republicans in the New Hampshire Legislature have pushed through several bills this year that are designed, the New Hampshire Bulletin news site informs us, to strengthen fiscal oversight of public schools.In particular, conservative lawmakers have...

Forum for Aug. 27, 2024: NH teacher pay

A dishonest approach to teacher pay It seems to me that when the Republicans seek to divide school administrators and school teachers over discrepancy in salaries, it is a diversionary tactic (“Critics target pay of school leaders”; Aug. 20)....

Forum for Aug. 26, 2024: Monahan seeks new term

Monahan seeks new termTwo weeks ago, lightning struck the Grafton County Administration Building. A shared server room inside of the Registry of Deeds serves most other departments. Many operations suffered considerable damage and ceased to function....

Editorial: Rebuilding faith in democracy, beyond Trump

In announcing this past week that he would be voting for Kamala Harris in this fall’s presidential election, retired federal appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig denounced Donald Trump as a threat to the very existence of American democracy. As...