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Darryl Benjamin: What it’s like to move to Florida as a liberal

By Commentary

Jan 27 2023January 26, 2023

We had no idea that moving from Bernie Sanders territory to Ron De SantisLand was like moving from Brooklyn to pre-war Germany.


Madeleine Kunin: The specter of antisemitism still elicits a small tremor

By Madeleine May Kunin

Dec 6 2022December 6, 2022

Trump sign, swastika

“Brush that anxiety way,” I tell myself. “You must condemn antisemitism wherever and whenever it appears.”


Ron Pulcer: ‘Candidate quality’ — Trump will lose again in 2024

By Commentary

Dec 5 2022December 2, 2022

Voters do consider "candidate quality." If Republicans want to win, I’d suggest more Phil Scotts and fewer Tudor Dixons.


Offie Wortham: Is there any hope for a racist-free society?

By Commentary

Dec 2 2022December 1, 2022

The incomprehensible damage that has been done to confuse and mislead billions of people through the power of television and social media is often overlooked and not even considered as one of the major problems in the world.


Joe Benning: To succeed, Vermont Republican Party must be center/right

By Commentary

Nov 23 2022November 22, 2022

VTGOP leaders must recognize the largest voting bloc in Vermont is not Republicans or Democrats or Progressives. It is those who consider themselves independents. If VTGOP leaders move to rigid right-wing ideologues for comfort, we lose that bloc.


Haviland Smith: Will there be political violence in America’s future?

By Commentary

Nov 22 2022November 21, 2022

Things could go either way, but what Trump has done is establish an environment in which violence of all sorts appears to be increasingly acceptable in the general population.


Vermont Conversation: Barack Obama's speechwriter on 'the power of a president's words'

By David Goodman

Nov 16 2022November 16, 2022

Obama has had a silent partner in crafting his oratory. In 2006, a novice speechwriter named Cody Keenan joined his team.


David Moats: Elder statesman Howard Dean calls for a new version of his younger self

By David Moats

Nov 15 2022November 28, 2022

His strategy remains: Politics that harnesses the energies of the younger generation and listens to people in all parts of the country.


John Bossange: Those ‘alternative facts’ have a destructive impact 

By Commentary

Nov 13 2022November 11, 2022

Voting for a candidate who spread alternative facts supporting conspiracies and threats of violence did severe harm to our communities and to our democratic election process.


Republican US Senate candidate Gerald Malloy endorsed by Donald Trump

By VTD Editor

Nov 3 2022November 3, 2022

An email from Trump's Save America PAC called Malloy a "Brave Veteran" and took aim at his opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Welch.


Kevin Ellis: What happens in politics when nobody cares?

By Commentary

Oct 17 2022October 14, 2022

Why is Herschel Walker still politically alive while Gary Hart sank like a stone? What happened in the last 35 years? Why are Trump and Walker held to different standards than Gary Hart? It’s because we got used to it.


Will Patten: And then along came Trump…

By Commentary

Oct 5 2022October 4, 2022

Opinion now crowds out news and conspiracies enthrall even the rational among us. Facts are fungible. Science is disrespected. Bias becomes a religion and religion becomes a weapon. Without truth, we are rudderless.


John Bossange: Who still supports the defeated ex-president?

By Commentary

Sep 19 2022September 19, 2022

By now I believe there are three basic groups: the gullible cult, the financially greedy and the evil political leaders.


Elayne Clift: Is this the country you want to inhabit?

By Commentary

Sep 16 2022September 3, 2022

The very idea that a fertilized egg has more rights than a real human being and that funding for programs that aid children in need are being cut should be proof of a nation in the grip of madness for the good of the mad.


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