Opinion: Responding to “A counter to the No Kings rally”

So… you drove by the No Kings 3 rally in Middlebury and observed that “most of the protesters looked like they never got over the thrill of protesting the Vietnam War” and that if Trump were actually a king “there would be no protesting.” My response is as follows: 1. I take it as a great compliment that I was one of the people attending the No Kings 3 who protested the Vietnam War. I, along with many others, also protested segregation, the use of the military against students at Kent State, degradation of … (read more)

We’re sharing widely recognized warning signs scholars and historians use when studying authoritarian systems because democracies don’t disappear overnight.

Yet another sign of fascism is “whitewashing” history. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “whitewashing history” is “to distort (history, literature, a narrative) to exclude non-white people etc.

On December 23, 1776, American patriot Thomas Paine published this essay: ‘The (American) Crisis.’ The first line is ‘These are the times that try men’s souls.’ (At the outset I would like to make a simple amend to say “these are the times that try (wo)me … (read more)

These much maligned, often misunderstood creatures are just another example of evolution’s most divine and brilliant work.

Five local residents have stepped forward seeking to fill an interim vacancy on the Middlebury selectboard.