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Opinion: Telling Rudolf Vrba’s story
06-05-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. One extremely disturbing trend going on now is the popularity of far-right ideas, including those of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. In considering why there has been a resurgence in Neo-Nazi ideas, one...


Opinion: Removing the Flynn historical marker was an act of ignorance
05-30-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The New Hampshire state decision to take down the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn historical marker two weeks after it was unveiled was both wrong-headed and ignorant. Flynn had a long, flamboyant and illustrious life. The...


Opinion: The Dickensian return of child labor
05-22-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Up until recently, child labor was not a subject you would see discussed in any media. There has been a perception that child labor was a thing of the past. It was outlawed roughly 100 years ago. It was something...


Opinion: The arrogance of power
05-15-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Not even a month ago, I wrote a My Turn column that pointed out the ongoing corruption issues with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He had failed to report lavish vacations and expensive gifts he had received...


Opinion: An untold story of the exploitation of immigrant labor
05-08-2023 7:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Few subjects are written about more poorly than immigration. Fox News and the MAGA fascists have long controlled the immigration narrative and they talk about immigrants as two-dimensional villains, not as fully...


Opinion: An appreciation of Ngo Vinh Long
05-02-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. To my generation of 1960s progressives, I’d say, without hesitation, that the Vietnam War was a central event in our collective lives. Opposition to that war was defining for many of us. It was our education about...


Opinion: A white collar paradox
04-24-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. When former President Donald Trump was indicted in New York, it seemed like a milestone. The media treated it as a big deal, like some kind of taboo was broken. Sen. Joe Manchin (D.-WV) and Gov. Kim Reynolds...


Opinion: A tale of two justices
04-17-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Older readers may remember the relatively brief Supreme Court tenure of Justice Abe Fortas. Fortas was on the Court from 1965 to 1969. He had been a law professor at Yale and gained prominence because he was counsel...


Opinion: The danger of antisemitic dog whistles
04-10-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I don’t usually pay attention to Donald Trump’s social media postings. However, I did notice that in his foaming-at-the-mouth about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the DA who is prosecuting him, he called...


Opinion: On not learning from the Iraq War
03-27-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. This March marks the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It’s amazing how little public reflection there has been about the American role in that endeavor. The Iraq War was not an error or a tragic...


Opinion: The little-known legal lynching that sparked the civil rights movement
03-20-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. In Greenwood Mississippi, there’s a statue of Emmett Till that pays homage to the 14-year-old who was murdered in the summer of 1955. Till’s murder fueled the burgeoning civil rights movement. There’s now a movie,...


Opinion: Why New England’s role in the transatlantic slave trade matters
03-13-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. New England has a reputation as a historic, progressive, and culturally rich region. Probably no area in the country can match our colleges and universities. In the 19th century, New England played a prominent role...


Opinion: Elizabeth Eckford, the Little Rock Nine, and desegregation
03-06-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Before going south on a civil rights trip organized by the Nation Magazine, I had never been to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was only vaguely familiar with the struggle to integrate schools there in the 1950s. There was...


Opinion: Unsung heroes of the Mississippi movement
02-27-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. We have all heard the expression “living history.” When I was in college, I had several professors who could make learning come alive but as an adult, it seems rare to have that “on fire” type experience. So I feel...


Opinion: We’re backtracking on guns and domestic violence
02-20-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Domestic violence often disappears from the headlines. Usually, only stories like an intimate partner homicide or another mass shooting break through public inattention.Court decisions about domestic violence mostly...


Opinion: The irrationality of conspiracy theories
02-15-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. We have reached a point where conspiracy theories have proliferated so much that they have lost the ability to surprise. The entire right-wing ecosphere has been polluted. False information that’s intended to mislead...


Opinion: A threat to academic freedom
02-06-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. One of the more blatant publicity-seeking stunts pulled by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been his effort to kill an advanced placement course in African  American studies. Following DeSantis’s lead, the Florida...


Opinion: The right to strike
01-30-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After stripping women of their reproductive rights, the far-right majority of the U.S. Supreme Court is now on the verge of weakening workers’ rights and the whole labor union movement. The Court just heard oral...


Opinion: Defunding the IRS only serves to help the rich
01-23-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.One of the first acts of the new Congress was a House Republican effort to rescind Internal Revenue Service funding. Under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats directed almost $80 billion to the IRS...


Opinion: The life of Leonard Peltier
01-16-2023 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Leonard Peltier remains in federal prison in Florida, now in his 47th year of confinement. So far, all efforts for clemency have failed. Very disappointingly, President Biden has not yet granted clemency.I previously...

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