The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

Winooski Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria on why he was detained at the border

From the moment that Wilmer Chavarria was pulled out of line by immigration agents at an airport in Houston on July 21, he sensed that he was a marked...

Journalist Garrett Graff on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb and the rise of authoritarianism today

“Eighty years ago this week,” writes Vermont journalist Garrett Graff, “a group of physicists and military leaders changed warfare — and the...

Planned Parenthood's Nicole Clegg on reproductive rights without clinics

Vermonters overwhelmingly voted to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution in 2022. But what if those rights – to abortion, birth...

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on the rise of the right in rural America

What explains the fierce loyalty of Donald Trump’s base, even when he enacts laws that hurt them?

Arlie Russell Hochschild has searched for...

'Don’t back down' — Vermont’s marriage equality revolution at 25

This week marks the 25th anniversary of civil unions, which were the most sweeping grant of rights to gay couples in the nation when they became law...