Imperium Watch: Warming Denier Defeated

You remember James Inhofe, the U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. Inhofe is the fellow who said global warming was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. Now, as the West burns up in forest fires and corn farmers in Iowa are desperate for rain, Inhofe is...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Too Many Hungry People Earlier this week, Sens. Brown and Kerry proved that it is possible for Republicans and Democrats to rise above partisan politics to protect our most vulnerable citizens—children, elders and people with disabilities—from hunger and...
What Sports Media Don't Talk About

What Sports Media Don't Talk About

Concerned fans want to know: Is Theo a communist? Though our sports culture is scrutinized by so many over-analyzing media outlets, issues of team ownership and the business of sports don’t receive the attention they deserve. That changed for a couple of minutes...

The Digital Election

Welcome to the first digital presidential election. You might have thought we lived through that four years ago, when the online-focused campaign of Barack Obama revolutionized modern politics in ways that are still coming into focus. After all, no previous candidate...
Where Are The Fish?

Where Are The Fish?

The book on my bedside table right now is about fishing, the debut non-fiction work of Matt Rigney, a Guilford, Conn. native who lives in Whately. In Pursuit of Giants: One Man’s Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish is a very important book; for anyone...