Opinion
Willem Lange: After Cancer Finding, Holding on to Hope
Willem Lange
MontpelierA few years ago, when I signed up with a new personal care provider in central Vermont, she asked, “What are your goals for your health care in the coming years?” She didn’t say it, but I knew what she meant, which was “in the few short...
Column: Tending Wilder’s Grave, and His Memory
Paul Keane
What The Thornton Wilder Society recently did would have been unthinkable many years ago. It announced that Wilder, who died in 1975 as America’s most honored writer (three Pulitzers and a National Book Award) had lived his life as a “deeply closeted”...
Column: At Long Last Andrew Jackson Gets Liberated
Stephen Mihm
Column: At Long Last Andrew Jackson Gets Liberated- The announcement by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew that Harriet Tubman will take the place of Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill has caused some grumbling. Sen. Lamar Alexander, who like Jackson is from Tennessee, expressed grave misgivings...