David Moats

The news is going to happen, and attention must be paid.

Veteran journalist David Moats shares his perspective on VTDigger’s critical role in the state’s media future.

History happens at the macro level and the micro level.

If one wing of the party was riding high at this year’s Republican convention, Phil Scott’s wing will still be there if Trump tumbles to defeat in November.

The trick for any generation is to sift through the competing claims and to focus on one’s true aims. 

Democracy is a human endeavor, and one trait of democracy’s foes is their lack of respect for their fellow citizens. To be lied to is to be disrespected, but for would-be authoritarians, truth is the enemy when it becomes an obstacle to power.

News in pursuit of truth

It’s not nature that’s malevolent. It’s malevolent human action that must be contested.

The conflict between Louisiana and Vermont continues in the struggle to rectify the abuses endured through the decades, including segregation and discrimination in housing, education, and other areas.

The richer nations of the world have a choice. They can embrace the reality of migration by arranging for an orderly process that respects the humanity of migrants, or they can adopt an us-vs.-them attitude and engage in a futile, punitive effort to hold back the global demographic tides.

Biden’s positive message — “Let’s finish the job” — is a strong counter to the bitterness and division of the Trump-enthralled Republican Party.

Casting the students of today into the virtual world of texts floating on their computer screens without linking them to the world of actual books, even those they will never read, is to allow education to continue its decline into a dry husk.

His strategy remains: Politics that harnesses the energies of the younger generation and listens to people in all parts of the country.

Leahy’s observations shed light, not only on one man’s career, but on the nation’s turbulent journey from the final days of the Vietnam War to the parlous present, which finds democracy under assault abroad and at home.

Our grandchildren will look toward us one day and wonder what we did in response.

Many of the storytellers have spent years in Vermont, but they are living apart from their families because they want to help them, sending money back home that will allow

There was a quality of desperation to the complaints about civil unions, and lately, the same quality of desperation is evident in the language of those seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Leahy has always been kind to me, arousing the suspicion of the newsman wary of politicians trying to be too chummy. But over the years I’ve seen that he is the genuine article, and if he has won me over, so be it.

David Holmes also has a related project: Defining the attributes of the Vermont character.

We became acquainted with bright, ambitious, open, friendly people caught between two worlds — the isolated, rural, medieval world of traditional Afghanistan and the beckoning opportunities of the modern world.