David Moats
CommentatorDavid Moats is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
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A friend who lives in another part of the country told me that shortly after the last election she overheard a group of teenage girls at a swimming pool,…
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One question I have for the big shot men who've been accused of abusive behavior toward women is this: Don’t you see what losers you are if you have to…
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Maybe it’s the toxic quality of politics today, or a general sense of unease about the future, but my thoughts – and the thoughts of many others - have…
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The record that sticks in my mind came the night when Burlington never fell below 80 degrees. That’s not what you call sleeping weather.As author and…
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Vermont’s labor history includes the farm work that took place in virtually every town — the farm families who labored every day to till rocky fields,…
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It was 1965 when the delegates of the United Nations gathered in San Francisco to celebrate the founding of the U.N. in that city 20 years before. I was a…
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I was driving through the empty, sage-covered rangeland of eastern Washington one time when I saw a giant sign that said “Ron Paul for President.”Of…
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Journalists are a little like doctors. Sometimes they have to give people bad news. The difference is there’s no arguing with a heart attack.There’s more…
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It all depends on how you look at it. That’s what a friend was saying about how the telling of history shapes the way we see things.One way of looking at…
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Ever since I began writing about Vermont schools — more than 40 years ago — I’ve been struck by a couple of things.First, I’ve seen how local schools in…