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Op-Ed: Nobody voted for war
Carleigh Beriont Carleigh Beriont

Op-Ed: Nobody voted for war

I have spent my career studying the consequences of U.S. military action. I teach about international conflict and diplomacy. I have lived in communities still scarred by the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing. I do not romanticize war or underestimate how quickly “major combat operations” can become a global catastrophe.

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Op-Ed: This is what solidarity looks like in the face of ICE
Carleigh Beriont Carleigh Beriont

Op-Ed: This is what solidarity looks like in the face of ICE

Every month, I join faith leaders and immigration activists to sing, pray, and walk seven times around the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester, where ICE has its New Hampshire office. As in the story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho from the Hebrew Bible, those who walk this path each month know that the aspiring Americans we’re walking for face long odds. Still, we walk undeterred.

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Op-Ed: NH urged to probe health impacts near Seabrook nuclear plant
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Op-Ed: NH urged to probe health impacts near Seabrook nuclear plant

A recent study led by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that living closer to a nuclear power plant is associated with higher cancer rates, with risk increasing with age and decreasing the farther from these plants people live. The study examined data from seven nuclear power plants located within 120km of Massachusetts zip codes, including Seabrook Station in New Hampshire. 

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Op-Ed: Congress Must Intervene to Stop Imperialist Trump
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Op-Ed: Congress Must Intervene to Stop Imperialist Trump

"When it comes to Trump's invasion of Venezuela, his abduction of Maduro, his promise to “run” Venezuela, and his newly coined “Don-roe Doctrine,” we’re seeing nakedly imperial ambition premised on the idea that “might makes right.” It is emblematic of the very worst moments in the history of the U.S. empire, and it weakens the power and potential of democracy both here and abroad."

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Op-Ed: Gov. Ayotte's attacks on NH schools will be worse under Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
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Op-Ed: Gov. Ayotte's attacks on NH schools will be worse under Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Earlier this month, when Republicans in DC passed Trump’s ruthless and reckless budget bill, they voted to take away healthcare and food from families in order to give more tax breaks to literal billionaires and run up our national debt. Out of the many headline-grabbing policies in this Frankenstein’s monster of a bill, what’s gotten less attention is how the legislation nationalizes school vouchers as part of a larger agenda to defund and ultimately destroy public education across the country.

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