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By BRIAN ADAMS

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...

By JOHN GAGE

John Gage of Windham is volunteer NH state coordinator for Citizens’ Climate Lobby. The opinions expressed are his own and do not represent the position of CCL. When my daughter and I attended a hearing of the NH House Committee on State-Federal...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The stories about corruption at the U.S. Supreme Court keep mushrooming. We first heard about Justice Clarence Thomas accepting expensive gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow that Thomas never reported. After Thomas...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. “Democracies don’t have to die at the end of a rifle,” President Biden recently said. “They can die when people are silent,...

By SUZANNE GAETJENS-OLESON

Suzanne Gaetjens-Oleson, LCMHC, is CEO of Northern Human Services in Conway. She lives in Lancaster. On June 6, Governor Chris Sununu signed Executive Order 2023-04, which directs the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human...

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 JANET WARD

Janet Ward lives in Contoocook. On April 25, the NH Senate Education Committee heard testimony regarding HB 367 and HB 464. Both bills propose the expansion of funding for Education Freedom Accounts, New Hampshire’s school voucher program. This...

By SUSAN MARCOTTE-JENKINS

Susan Marcotte-Jenkins of Bow attended the Monitor’s opinion writing workshop this summer. I’m a Bow resident with nothing personal at stake in the town’s cell tower project except the serious concerns everyone has over Bow’s inadequate cell service.I...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. While the great battle against fascism in World War II was fought in Europe, there was also a fight against fascism inside the United States in the 1930s-1940s. There is little recollection now that there was a...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The sedition convictions of Oath Keepers’ leaders, Elmer Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, returned focus to the events of January 6. While the January 6 Committee has done an excellent job ferreting out facts, there...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. When I was growing up, my family belonged to Main Line Reform Temple, a reform Jewish congregation in the Philadelphia suburbs. I was bar mitzvahed and confirmed there. For about ten years, I regularly attended...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Going as far back as the Richard Nixon presidency, the Republican Party has played the law and order card, arguing that they are the party that will keep Americans safe from crime and disorder. Of course, Nixon was...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Around seven years ago, I started raising the question of whether Donald Trump and the MAGA movement he led were fascist. Numerous academics and mainstream journalists pooh-poohed that characterization as imprecise...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I think it is fair to say that fear of immigrants in the United States is out-of-control. And it’s not just in the United States. Fascist and far-right politicians have persuaded citizens in many countries that the...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. With mass shootings practically a daily event, defenders of unrestricted gun owner rights typically invoke the mantra of the Second Amendment. Attention is rarely paid though to the historical circumstances...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I’ve written before about how I’ve been trying to focus on positive alternatives to counteract today’s dominant “the sky is falling”...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I have wanted, as did poet Mary Oliver, to keep a distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. I have tried, I...

By DEVIN McDONALD

Devin McDonald is a junior at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Founder of The Medusa Project, McDonald has devoted much of her time outside of classes over the last several years to researching the connections between women in antiquity...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The Democrats are facing a scary mid-term election. Parties in power typically lose ground in the mid-terms. Add high gas prices and inflation to the mix, issues where voters often blame office-holders, and...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.You might think that if some political partisans had a plan to steal a presidential election, it would be kept top secret. That is not the case with the Republican Party. Their plan to steal the 2024 presidential...