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By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. September 11 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew Chile’s democratically-elected government led by Salvador Allende. It is the lesser known 9/11 but one that also had huge consequences. The...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. We are well over a year out from the 2024 presidential contest in November 2024 and most political commentators are assuming the race will be between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. That is the conventional wisdom, but...

By RAY DUCKLER

A weeks-long investigation by state authorities led to the arrest of a white supremacist from Danbury, who may also be charged with a sex offender registration violation as well as firearms charges, according to Andrew Grillo, the Deputy U.S. Marshal...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. In his book, “How The Word Is Passed,” the writer Clint Smith says that the history of the United States is the history of slavery. It was central to our American story. Of course, in my own educational experience,...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. While I am not an election predictor, I did notice the recent New York Times/Siena College poll taken before Donald Trump’s latest criminal indictment that indicated that he and President Biden are in a tight race...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. More than any single case, the biggest story about the Supreme Court has been the exposure of its blatant corruption and the failure of Chief Justice John Roberts to respond in any meaningful way. The ProPublica...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Instead of supporting a ceasefire and peace talks, the Biden Administration continues to pursue an extremely hawkish approach to the war in Ukraine. This is exemplified in one particularly disturbing decision which...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Although this association has rarely been made, the similarities between the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are marked. Both movements have preached the centrality of...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Last year, as we watched the U.S. Supreme Court destroy reproductive freedom for women, more attention was paid to the outcome of the Dobbs abortion case than the Court’s reasoning and justification. Justice Samuel...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Recently my old friend Rusty sent me a video clip from a speech President John F. Kennedy gave 60 years ago. Given at the commencement ceremony at American University on June 10, 1963, the speech became famously...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Back in the years prior to 2015, there used to be two major political parties in America committed to democracy. The parties disagreed vehemently about policy and the Republicans relied on voter suppression and...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Any time the U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision now, I admit I shudder. Very occasionally they can surprise, like they did in the Alabama voting rights case, Allen v Milligan, this last week but typically decisions...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. June is the end of the term for the U.S. Supreme Court and it is when the big decisions usually issue. We have already had one major environmental decision in Sackett v Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In that...

By RAY DUCKLER

Scott Carpenter travels for work.One day, he may have an appointment on a mountain somewhere, other days on a huge rock, still others trudging through waist-deep snow. And sometimes, he’ll work at a senior housing complex, breathing life into people,...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. One extremely disturbing trend going on now is the popularity of far-right ideas, including those of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. In considering why there has been a resurgence in Neo-Nazi ideas, one...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The New Hampshire state decision to take down the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn historical marker two weeks after it was unveiled was both wrong-headed and ignorant. Flynn had a long, flamboyant and illustrious life. The...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Up until recently, child labor was not a subject you would see discussed in any media. There has been a perception that child labor was a thing of the past. It was outlawed roughly 100 years ago. It was something...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Not even a month ago, I wrote a My Turn column that pointed out the ongoing corruption issues with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He had failed to report lavish vacations and expensive gifts he had received...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Few subjects are written about more poorly than immigration. Fox News and the MAGA fascists have long controlled the immigration narrative and they talk about immigrants as two-dimensional villains, not as fully...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. To my generation of 1960s progressives, I’d say, without hesitation, that the Vietnam War was a central event in our collective lives. Opposition to that war was defining for many of us. It was our education about...