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By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After the death of George Floyd and the movement it provoked, it looked like there might be a serious national effort to address racial bias in policing. It also looked like there might be a genuine dialogue about...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After the coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021, and considering Donald Trump’s refusal to recognize the results of the 2020 election, it is hard not to worry about election schemes Trump might have up his sleeve. Sometimes...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race obliterated the prevailing political narrative. Instead of old-age Biden versus old-age Trump, we had the emergence of not-old Kamala Harris. The reaction...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. In a term featuring multiple precedent-shattering decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a shocker in Snyder v. United States. The Court narrowed the definition of public corruption in a case that centered on the...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. As people give the candidacy of convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter Donald Trump a closer look, more eyes have been drawn to Project 2025, a project launched by the Heritage Foundation, a well-endowed...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. During years working at New Hampshire Legal Assistance, I represented many homeless individuals. The reasons for homelessness were varied: eviction, job loss, divorce, domestic violence, and disability, among...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Back in 2017, in what was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 411 at a music festival held on the Las Vegas Strip. The gunman who was perched on the 32nd floor of...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.We just passed the Juneteenth holiday and although it may be the holiday with the coolest name, I don’t think the history behind the holiday is well-known or well-understood. I would argue it is one of our most...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Probably there is no more famous novel in American literature than Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” So it is an event that there is an audacious new novel, “James” by Percival Everett, that recreates...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The collective freak out of the Republican Party leadership after the criminal conviction of their cult leader, Donald Trump, was predictable. They appeared to be in a state of disbelief when a New York jury found...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The current round of student protests brings back memories. I started at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in the fall of 1968. One of my early college memories is demonstrating against then-Republican...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Last week I saw a letter to the editor in this newspaper about Republicans. The letter said we are inundated with misinformation and name-calling. The writer explained that Republicans believe in God, America,...
By ANN DAVIS
Ann Davis, a retired journalist, lives in Wilmot. She recently received the Outstanding Industry Advocate Award from the Northeastern Loggers Association. A troublesome amendment to an New Hampshire House bill is wending its way through the...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. May 6 was Holocaust Remembrance Day. The world failed the Jewish people both before and during the years of World War II, with catastrophic consequences. Six million Jews ended up dying in the concentration camps....
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
In Andy Chew’s garage, aluminum cans – remnants of seltzers and assorted drinks – are piled high in large bins because it pains him too much to throw them away.Living in Wilmot, where recycling options are scarce, with the town lacking facilities for...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. It has now been 14 years since Howard Zinn died. A historian, Zinn is mostly remembered for writing “A People’s History of the United States,” a controversial recounting of the American story. Zinn focused on the...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Polls are omnipresent in America and I admit to deep skepticism about their accuracy. I think of Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton and the failure of the red wave to materialize in 2022 as examples that justify that...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Previously I have written about the failure of lawyers and judges to respond to the growing threat of fascism in the United States. Very few lawyers who supported Trump’s anti-democratic coup attempt have faced any...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Probably like many people in Concord, I was disappointed in the NH Superior Court’s decision finding that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue the state for its removal of the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn historical...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After the oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court on the Mifepristone case, FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, most pro-choice commentators breathed a sigh of relief. It appeared that the Court was not buying...
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