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,鈥� -
One question I have for the big shot men who've been accused of abusive behavior toward women is this: Don鈥檛 you see what losers you are if you have to鈥� -
Maybe it鈥檚 the toxic quality of politics today, or a general sense of unease about the future, but my thoughts 鈥� and the thoughts of many others - have鈥� -
The record that sticks in my mind came the night when Burlington never fell below 80 degrees. That鈥檚 not what you call sleeping weather.As author and鈥� -
Vermont鈥檚 labor history includes the farm work that took place in virtually every town 鈥� the farm families who labored every day to till rocky fields,鈥� -
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鈥� -
I was driving through the empty, sage-covered rangeland of eastern Washington one time when I saw a giant sign that said 鈥淩on Paul for President.鈥漁f鈥� -
Journalists are a little like doctors. Sometimes they have to give people bad news. The difference is there鈥檚 no arguing with a heart attack.There鈥檚 more鈥� -
It all depends on how you look at it. That鈥檚 what a friend was saying about how the telling of history shapes the way we see things.One way of looking at鈥� -
Ever since I began writing about Vermont schools 鈥� more than 40 years ago 鈥� I鈥檝e been struck by a couple of things.First, I鈥檝e seen how local schools in鈥�
