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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VADIM CHUPRINA 1961/Creative CommonsThe president of the International Rescue Committee recently characterized the situation in Ukraine as not just a military crisis, but also a moral one. Commentator Elizabeth Vozzola, a moral psychologist, agrees. -
Robert Chipkin/Courtesy of the authorCommentator Robert Chipkin recently sat in the audience of a local community theater production of "A Christmas Carol: The Musical." He's been following the career of one its actors very closely.
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CC BY-SA 4.0/Creative CommonsTriggering only one of two possible danger signals when pulled over for speeding.
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Nan Parati/Courtesy of the authorNo more newfangled gadgets for commentator Nan Parati.
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I agree with the creator and star of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, who said performers are “like Tinker Bell in the play ‘Peter Pan.’ We need applause… -
When nearly everyone else believed Wally Funk would never get a shot at space, she persisted. For years, Funk has pursued commercial space flight – but…
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The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected the institutional church, which overnight watched its communities exiled from their buildings.Because my…
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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…
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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…
