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Author: David Goodman

David Goodman is an award-winning journalist and the author of a dozen books, including four New York Times bestsellers that he co-authored with his sister, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman. His work has appeared in Mother Jones, New York Times, Outside, Boston Globe and other publications. He is the host of The Vermont Conversation, a VTDigger podcast featuring in-depth interviews about local and national topics. The Vermont Conversation is also an hour-long weekly radio program that can be heard on Wednesday at 1 p.m. on WDEV/Radio Vermont.
 

Vermont Conversation: Kiah Morris continues her fight for justice 

By David Goodman

Feb 1 2023February 3, 2023

Morris has continued to fight back and speak out since resigning her seat as a state representative from Bennington. She stepped down out of concern for the safety of her family, but she has not stepped back.


Vermont Conversation: Food, love and mental illness

By David Goodman

Jan 25 2023January 25, 2023

What Erika Nichols-Frazer guarded as her deeply private struggle is actually common.


Vermont Conversation: Bill McKibben on ‘a moment of extraordinary opportunity’

By David Goodman

Jan 18 2023January 18, 2023

McKibben acknowledges that most of his dire predictions about climate change have come true since he first started writing about it three decades ago. And yet he insists “we are actually at a moment of extraordinary opportunity — the convergence of this big mobilization of people around the world.”


Vermont Conversation: Are we doomed to fight?

By David Goodman

Jan 11 2023January 12, 2023

How do we break out of this cycle in which disagreements quickly spiral into good-versus-evil, us-versus-them battles? And how did we get here?


Vermont Conversation: Sen. Patrick Leahy passes the gavel after a half-century

By David Goodman

Jan 4 2023January 4, 2023

Leahy was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974 at the age of 34. He is now 82.


Vermont Conversation: The last American newspaper

By David Goodman

Dec 21 2022December 21, 2022

Ken Tingley on the cover of his book, "The Last American Newspaper"

Over the last decade, Ken Tingley watched as his newsroom went from a staff of about 50 to just 7 people today. He chronicles what has happened to local news in his new book.


Vermont Conversation: Greed is not good — Jon Erickson on building an economics of prosperity

By David Goodman

Dec 14 2022December 14, 2022

Erickson is now an ecological economist, and he champions a new kind of economics that fosters a healthy, balanced relationship between people and planet. Ecological economics has been gaining influence both in academia and in environmental and social justice movements.


Vermont Conversation: ‘Dictator Hunter’ Reed Brody on his global quest to bring tyrants to justice

By David Goodman

Dec 7 2022December 7, 2022

He has helped pursue and bring to justice notorious dictators including Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti and Yahya Jammeh of Gambia.


Vermont Conversation: ‘I am trans, I am here’: Randolph high school student speaks out after hate campaign

By David Goodman

Nov 30 2022November 30, 2022

A transgender Vermont high school student who was the target of a transphobic hate campaign is breaking her silence.


Vermont Conversation: A new Santa Claus is coming to town and ‘he is a uniter’

By David Goodman

Nov 23 2022November 29, 2022

“Santa Camp” is a new documentary from HBO Max about an effort to diversify who represents Santa Claus.


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