Bill Schubart
CommentatorBill Schubart lives and writes in Hinesburg. His latest book is Lila & Theron.
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Without notice or comment, The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCIS) recently deleted from its mission statement a century-old introductory…
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I’ve recently learned I’m a “privileged, cisgendered, white male.”This feels somewhat alien to me still - but it’s new so I’m willing to try it on and…
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While most of the civilized world has abandoned execution for moral as well as practical reasons, President Trump is now proposing an expanded application…
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“Build it and they will come” is the oft-misquoted meme from the classic movie Field of Dreams. And in the case of the proposal by CoreCivic, a private…
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Seventy per cent of all Americans are taking some form of prescription medication, and ten per cent of them are on anti-depressants. Among women between…
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Recent federal policies are putting our international standing at risk.Traditionally our moral standing as a world power lay in our persistent efforts to…
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Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has suggested that our economic recovery could be stoked by American women simply having more children.According to the…
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Although our collective individual commitments to improving our communities and environment are important in offsetting the negatives of over-consumption…
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They say truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But this doesn’t mean certain truths aren’t verifiable. Much depends on the granularity and…
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In physics, centripetal forces propel objects toward the center and centrifugal forces drive them away. And today, our societies and communities are…