New England Public Media airs and publishes commentaries from local people during Morning Edition and All Things Considered. We look for contributors in the region whose views will be of continuing interest and value to New England Public Media’s listeners — from the Berkshires to Worcester, Hartford to Brattleboro, and all points between.
Experts in a particular field who have an informed perspective on events in the news — whether local, national or international — are wanted. We also seek people with knowledge of local civics, culture and history, with an eye on little-known but fascinating elements of the regional experience. And we seek non-experts who by virtue of their thoughtfulness broaden or deepen our understanding of the world we live in.
Please email submissions to our commentary editor at commentaries@nepm.org.
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Nan Parati/Courtesy of the authorNo more newfangled gadgets for commentator Nan Parati. -
Annaliese Griffin/Courtesy of the authorAt the holidays, commentator Annaliese Griffin and her husband set themselves a challenge: Find secondhand gifts for each other. Given where they live, that's not such a tall order.
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200MoreMontrealStencils/Creative CommonsIn this time of harvest, I remember the weekend I came home from divinity school to the words of a fourth century monk on my parents’ refrigerator.I…
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COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR/In the last year, I’ve been rejected about four dozen times. An amalgam of agents, literary magazines and contests said no — and that’s not counting the…
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Reparations are systems of redress for state-sponsored injustices. They’re meant to repair past harms and have been implemented for various injured… -
Updated at 9:06 a.m. on April 28 During this pandemic, some cities have been said to be turning into ghost towns. I wonder if they — and we — are instead…
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I have been living with the pandemic for about a year, and the tempered hope of a vaccine for a few months. I’m extremely low-priority in the vaccine…
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Updated at 4:44 p.m. on April 8 I am not an anti-vaxxer by any means, but to deny that I don’t have my reservations about taking the COVID-19 vaccine…
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My father’s mother wasn’t what I’d call kitchen-oriented. As a young woman in Poland, she lived a busy life outside the home. We were told she’d been a…
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For 22 years, I’ve been publishing books with Asian or Asian American characters. That means for 22 years I have been trying to show Asians as people. Not…
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You might have seen the video of Dolly Parton receiving a COVID vaccine, developed with the help of her $1 million donation to research.Before getting the…
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In 1845, a pathogen infected the first potato in Ireland. The monocrop, upon which so many depended, failed. And an Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger,…
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Baseball legend Henry Aaron died last week at age 86. He broke Babe Ruth’s home run record in 1974, and became the target of white supremacists,…
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Last June, Vice President Mike Pence wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, "There Isn’t A Coronavirus Second Wave." The day it was published, 779…
