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By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. As a 1960s person who has nursed high expectations for social change, it is hard not to be extremely depressed at the state of our politics. Hopes of an evolution toward a less militaristic, ecologically sensitive,...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. For anyone concerned about the advance of authoritarianism in America, there has been plenty to worry about. In spite of his multiple criminal prosecutions, the Republican presidential front-runner appears to be...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. For any close observer of the MAGA movement, the last week or two has been extremely revealing. Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are telling us exactly what they intend to do if they regain power. Shredding the...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I would bet that if you asked most regular people who Leonard Leo was, the overwhelming majority would say they never heard of the guy. Leo first came to public attention when former President Donald Trump was...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. In November, the Supreme Court will be hearing a case, United States v Rahimi, about whether the Second Amendment invalidates a federal law that prohibits possession of a firearm by an individual subject to a...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I expect that many Americans remain uncomfortable with the notion that Donald Trump and his MAGA movement are fascist. The word “fascist” is a political football. Both sides of the political spectrum toss it around...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The stories about corruption at the U.S. Supreme Court keep mushrooming. We first heard about Justice Clarence Thomas accepting expensive gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow that Thomas never reported. After Thomas...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Lately I have been reading Naomi Klein’s brilliant new book “Doppelgänger.” It offers some acute analysis about the increasing role of conspiracy theories in our lives, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Without...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. There are periods in American history that don’t get much attention. One such period is the 1840s-1850s. Although it is not remembered now, there was an ongoing battle before the Civil War about the matter of...

By TOM SCHAMBERG and THOMAS OPPEL

NH State Representative Tom Schamberg, D-Wilmot, introduced legislation in the 2023 session to end the “water’s edge” method. Thomas Oppel, Canaan, consults with the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a 503(c)3 based in Washington. “We point out that...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Many commentators have remarked upon the multitude of lawyers intertwined inside the political and business dealings of Donald Trump. When Jack Smith indicted Trump in Washington D.C., at least five of his six...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. September 11 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew Chile’s democratically-elected government led by Salvador Allende. It is the lesser known 9/11 but one that also had huge consequences. The...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. We are well over a year out from the 2024 presidential contest in November 2024 and most political commentators are assuming the race will be between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. That is the conventional wisdom, but...

By RAY DUCKLER

A weeks-long investigation by state authorities led to the arrest of a white supremacist from Danbury, who may also be charged with a sex offender registration violation as well as firearms charges, according to Andrew Grillo, the Deputy U.S. Marshal...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. In his book, “How The Word Is Passed,” the writer Clint Smith says that the history of the United States is the history of slavery. It was central to our American story. Of course, in my own educational experience,...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. While I am not an election predictor, I did notice the recent New York Times/Siena College poll taken before Donald Trump’s latest criminal indictment that indicated that he and President Biden are in a tight race...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. More than any single case, the biggest story about the Supreme Court has been the exposure of its blatant corruption and the failure of Chief Justice John Roberts to respond in any meaningful way. The ProPublica...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Instead of supporting a ceasefire and peace talks, the Biden Administration continues to pursue an extremely hawkish approach to the war in Ukraine. This is exemplified in one particularly disturbing decision which...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Although this association has rarely been made, the similarities between the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are marked. Both movements have preached the centrality of...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Last year, as we watched the U.S. Supreme Court destroy reproductive freedom for women, more attention was paid to the outcome of the Dobbs abortion case than the Court’s reasoning and justification. Justice Samuel...