16 April 2009
Forced patriotism
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Gary Baumgarten
Let me start by saying that I am as patriotic as the next guy and I stand respectfully during the playing of the National Anthem before sporting events.

I also like the policy embraced by all the Major League Baseball teams...
12 April 2009
Changing the rules of the blame game
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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
A cartoon in the Sunday comics shows that mustachioed fellow with monocle and top hat from the Monopoly game -- "Rich Uncle Pennybags," he used to be called -- standing along the roadside, destitute, holding a sign: "Will blame poor...
10 April 2009
War casualties at home
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Gary Baumgarten
I know several young men who entered or who are entering the armed services of the United States. Not out of patriotic fervor. But because they are desperate to find a job in this economy.

They figure that when they get out...
02 April 2009
Is this the best we can do?
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Dan DeWalt, Charlotte Dennett, John Nirenberg and Martha Hennessy
On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John Nirenberg, a Brattleboro man who walked from Boston to Washington D.C. in 2007 to call for...
29 March 2009
Capitalist Incarnate: My interview with a vampire
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Jason Miller
While it’s a commonly held belief that “everyone has a nonbiological twin somewhere in the world,” I wonder if we all have an antithetical “anti-twin” as well. Because I recently met someone who could easily be mine. Ironically enough, it...
16 March 2009
Government stands in the way of financial security of small farmers: NAIS program is source of deep concern
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Mark Huntress
I took a month-old parsnip out to the compost pile yesterday, and I could tell it came from the supermarket because of the thick coating of wax that covered it. Without thinking about what I was doing, I started peeling the wax off. It was...

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