New Hampshire used to be a Republican state. Reliably red, as was the rest of New England. Even Massachusetts ("where Lodges speak only...

In a couple of hours I'm heading to soak up the experience of Avengers: Endgame, the capstone of the unprecedented and magnificent...

Part of the fun of travel is doing the homework ahead of time. I’ve always tried to cultivate some level of understanding of areas I’m...

I've made mention before on this list - and will again, with some of the books I've yet to cover - of my fascination with the era of the...

I've never been to Australia. I've spent some weeks in New Zealand, and adore it, but I've never visited big brother down under. One...

Back in high school, I had the great opportunity to participate in the YMCA Youth & Government program. More than a mock legislature,...

The passing of our friend Mark Connolly has led me to think about some of the people who have made New Hampshire politics such a vibrant...

We’re coming up on 2020, and it’s instructive to consider that years ending in zero have provided some of the most momentous presidential...

I'm a New Hampshire guy. I think I probably made that abundantly clear from my Granite State of Mind series a couple of years ago...

As a quasi-serious historian, I sometimes feel like I should be torn over writers like McCullough and Philbrick. Their work is the USA...

Federal government in the United States of the 19th century was an overwhelmingly Congressional exercise. Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln...

It's never been a secret that I'm an incrementalist at heart, that I believe public policy to be an iterative, not revolutionary...