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EDITORIAL

Don’t panic over EEE. But be cautious.

Common-sense precautions are warranted against the mosquito-borne illness, which is rare but often fatal.

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EDITORIAL

A lift for New England skiers

Local investors are buying Killington and Pico Mountain, a popular resort in Vermont, bucking the region’s trend of big out-of-state ownership.
Mary Ann D'Urso

From the Garden State to the Granite State

The move that brought me to live and work in this rural, sometimes remote area of New Hampshire, has shown me that courage comes in bits and opportunities.
Joe Sweeney

NH would have given Democrats the best presidential candidate

By bypassing New Hampshire as the first-in-the-nation primary, the Democratic National Committee shielded Joe Biden from the type of rigorous examination that might have revealed his vulnerabilities early on.

Sam Oliker-Friedland
NH elections work; state shouldn’t require proof of citizenship to vote
Two bad-faith bills are a partisan ploy to undermine trust in the state’s secure elections.

COMMENTARY | Senator David Watters and Andrea LaMoreaux
Cyanobacteria threatens New Hampshire’s iconic lakes. Two bills could help address the problem.
The president of NH Lakes and and a N.H. state senator say warmer winters show the need for New Hampshire’s business and tourism leadership to start advocating for solutions on climate change.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR
Republicans against Trump can banish him with one trip to the ballot box
If there was ever a moment to really put country over party, it’s now: by voting, just once, for Biden.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR
New Hampshire showed us some important things about Trump
The idea of a Trump alternative in the GOP race, for those who wished for one, was just that: wishful thinking. But it doesn’t mean that the GOP primaries haven’t taught us anything.

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COMMENTARY | DAN MCKEE

Governor McKee: Why I attended President Biden’s Valley Forge address

The stakes for our nation and our democracy have been at risk many times over the course of our history, the governor of Rhode Island writes, but never more so than this year.

Q&A | Prof. Marcus Board Jr.

The overwhelming Whiteness of the early primaries

Iowa and New Hampshire have all but sealed a Trump-Biden rematch — with nearly zero input from Black voters. A social-movement scholar on what that means for democracy.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Deepfake political messaging is light-years ahead of the law. It’s past time to change that.

While the law struggles to catch up, candidates and prosecutors must use existing law to try to curb AI-generated disinformation.

SCOT LEHIGH

Trump goes full grump in N.H. primary victory speech

An angry Trump is an unhinged Trump. And to his credit, even Trump himself seemed to realize there was something unorthodox about his primary night approach.

LEHIGH, VENNOCHI, AND HAJJAR

Was N.H. the end of the road for Nikki Haley?

Three columnists weigh in on whether Haley should continue the fight.

ADRIAN WALKER

New Hampshire is poised to tell us what we already knew — the GOP isn’t a party, it’s a cult

If the New Hampshire primary was supposed to be democracy’s last stand, it has hardly played out that way.

SCOT LEHIGH

When it comes to Trump and Biden, Nikki Haley and Dean Phillips test the politics of cognitive decline

If the New Hampshire of today still bears a strong resemblance to the independent-minded Granite State of old, expect a primary result that jump-starts the intra-party process.

James Pindell | ANALYSIS

Haley hopes to pull off a McCain-like upset in N.H. Here, by the numbers, is why it’s not happening.

Nearly 24 years ago, a town hall in Peterborough was the sign that then-Senator John McCain’s momentum was building.