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Perhaps nowhere in the state is the divide between the people and the political system felt more acutely than the North Country.

Editor’s Note: This story was first published on New Hampshire Bulletin.There’s a lot of things one might glean from living out of a camper van and traveling around the country for a year and a half. For Chichester, N.H., native Dave Andrews, the main...

ZIP Advertisement As child tax credit checks arrive, Democrats say Sununu would have followed McConnell in opposition to rescue plan NHGOP calls Democratic attacks ‘sign of desperation, panic’ over Hassan’s reelection chances Share Updated: 10:24 PM EDT Jul 15, 2021 Advertisement As child tax credit checks arrive, Democrats say Sununu would have followed McConnell in opposition to rescue plan NHGOP calls Democratic attacks ‘sign of desperation, panic’ over Hassan’s reelection chances Share Updated: 10:24 PM EDT Jul 15, 2021 A group of state Democratic le...

As part of a nationwide push to ban the supposed teaching of critical race theory in classrooms, Republican lawmakers are promoting bills which prohibit teaching students that one race is superior to another. But critical race theory makes no such claim, and now Fox News — which helped to manufacture this right-wing obsession — is amplifying this lie. Critical race theory is an academic movement first developed in the 1970s which examines the pervasive impact of systemic racism on American society. The concept has become a familiar boogeyman in right-wing media, particularly on Fox, wher...

The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession Adam Harris © Steve Liss / CSA Images / Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic On January 12, Keith Ammon, a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, introduced a bill that would bar schools as well as organizations that have entered into a contract or subcontract with the state from endorsing “divisive concepts.” Specifically, the measure would forbid “race or sex scapegoating,” questioning the value of meritocracy, and suggesting that New Hampshire—or the United States—is “fundamentally rac...