The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

Will local news survive?

Somewhere in America each week, two more newspapers call it quits. Some 2,500 dailies and weeklies have closed since 2005, and just 6,500 remain. In...

Delivering justice from Island Pond to Kosovo

“Children of sect seized in Vermont,” blared the headline on the front page of the New York Times on June 23, 1984. 

The newspaper reported,...

The human cost of America's forever wars

“Support our troops” is a familiar slogan heard when American troops are deployed abroad.

But are returning soldiers supported when they return...

Chamber music for the people

You never know where you will hear chamber music in Vermont. You could encounter a string quartet performing in a bookstore. In a café. At a bar. Or...

What the world can learn from South Africa

As countries around the world, including the U.S., confront rising authoritarianism, one country may offer insight into how democracy can triumph over...