Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing — viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that [...]

If anyone still clings to the belief that social change is impossible in this country they have to think again after President Obama's announcement yesterday that he supports the right of gay and lesbian Americans to marry.
Yes, support for gay marriage has been growing among young people, but the country remains [...]

The cover story of Newsweek reads: "The Fantasy Life of Working Women, why surrender is a feminist dream."
What fantasy life? Maybe the one percent of working women who have time to fantasize about getting spanked by their lovers, but not the 99 percent who are still trying to figure out when or [...]

I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its "No Women Allowed" sign?
I wonder what the male members of the club are afraid of. Could they be thinking that women are too sexually distracting to play with or [...]

"I didn't know you were an artist," my friend said with a note of surprise in her voice. She had just seen my woodcut hanging in the Amy Tarrant gallery at the Flynn Center. I had been asked to make a print for a Burlington City Arts and Flynn Center combined benefit show which included [...]

In President Obama's State of the Union address he made a good case for young people to stay in school. He said, "We also know that when students don't walk away from their education, more of them walk the stage to get their diploma. When students are not allowed to drop out, [...]

When young Hamlet vented his anger against Ophelia, he shouted, "Get thee to a nunnery!" That was what had happened to young women when they were spurned by lovers — their only recourse was to be condemned to a cloistered life.
Not so for Sister Elizabeth Candon. For 74 years, she happily served as a Sister [...]

Governor Peter Shumlin's efforts to challenge the safety of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant does not mark the first time that a Vermont governor went toe to toe with the plant. In 1985, when I was Governor, I learned that the plant had falsified inspection reports for years and that [...]

There will be no more sleepovers in public spaces for Occupy Wall Street. The tents and camp stoves have been picked up and carted away — gone. But the impact of this upstart political movement remains. The voices of students, union members, the disenchanted, the disenfranchised, the angry, and the [...]

This past weekend, hundreds and hundreds of Vermonters responded to the governor's call to help clean up the debris left behind by the onslaught of tropical storm Irene. We may never get the exact count–it doesn't matter. What we got was another affirmation of the Vermont sense of [...]