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Opinion: A pronoun evolution
01-07-2023 6:00 AM

By RICHARD BIRCHER

Richard Bircher lives in Lebanon. The markers used to distinguish traditionalists from cosmopolitans, shall now become easier to detect with the detailed characterizations offered by pronouning. Those persons most inclined to promote this entry of...


Opinion: Making the case for Biden
01-06-2023 6:00 AM

By ALLEN J. DAVIS

Allen J. Davis of Dublin is an educator and racial justice activist. Barack Obama shattered a glass ceiling and was, arguably, a very effective president. Joe Biden has done more in his first two White House years than Obama did in eight. Biden’s...


Opinion: Roberts court is an ethical embarrassment
01-02-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. As a court watcher, I have long thought the U.S. Supreme Court has escaped the type of critical scrutiny it deserves. Most media coverage focuses on wins and losses without going too under the surface. But maybe that...


Opinion: A better approach to cell service in Bow
12-31-2022 8:00 AM

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...


Opinion: The amazing heroism of Leon Lewis
12-26-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: The historical precedent of January 6
12-19-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: Antisemitism has a home among MAGA Republicans
10-31-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: Not a law and order party
10-17-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: Minimizing and missing the fascist threat
10-10-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: The little-known story of Jewish illegal immigration
08-22-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: The dark history of the Second Amendment
06-27-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: What if we get it right?
06-26-2022 9:00 AM

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”...


Opinion: The blight of banning books
06-26-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: Reclaiming Medusa as a symbol of female strength
06-14-2022 6:01 AM

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...


Opinion: The problem with Democrats
05-23-2022 6:00 AM

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...


Opinion: The plan to steal the 2024 presidential election
04-04-2022 6:00 AM

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...


My Turn: Putin, the bear, and the book of Revelation
03-06-2022 8:00 AM

By RANDALL BALMER

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has made the book of Revelation relevant once again.The final book of the New Testament, with its apocalyptic visions of multi-headed dragons, plagues, vials of judgment, the Whore of Babylon and the Battle of...


My Turn: Be a civic-minded citizen
02-13-2022 9:00 AM

By KAITLIN ROCCA

Civics is the study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society. Civic-minded individuals are proactive citizens willing to plug into and engage in the world around them. Our society thrives when people are committed to serving the greater...

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