The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

An abolitionist newspaper rises again

In 1820, The Emancipator became the first newspaper in the country devoted exclusively to the cause of abolishing slavery. It was published in Tennessee,...

Journalist Joel Simon on the ‘Infodemic’ of lies making people sicker

When residents of Wuhan, China, began mysteriously falling ill in December 2019, the Chinese government quickly moved to quash news about the disease...

The mother of all toxics battles

Lois Gibbs knew something was not right when her 5-year-old son began having seizures. She soon discovered the local school and playground in Niagara...

‘It feels like a dangerous hiatus right now’: New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer on how dark money fuels right-wing extremism

Jane Mayer has earned a reputation as one of the country’s top investigative reporters. As chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, Mayer...

The roots and way out of Vermont's housing crisis

From Brattleboro to Newport and beyond, a crisis is brewing in the Green Mountains. Housing, especially affordable housing, is desperately hard to find.

“The...