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UNH student employees: A perspective

By Hannah Donahue · Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) has recently curtailed most of its operations. Almost every student has left Durham, but many in off-campus residencies still remain. Some of these students, such as myself, are student employees

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Ben's Bench: Confirming the comeback

By Hannah Donahue · Wednesday, March 11, 2020

In accomplishing a comeback typically reserved for Hollywood blockbusters and Oscar winners, former Vice President and current frontrunner Joseph R. Biden, Jr., went from becoming a guest star on the “Walking Dead” to the left’s best hope in dethroning Donald Trump and barring him from a second term.

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Ben's Bench: The Democratic Debate that wasn't

By Hannah Donahue · Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020

I want to start this off with an apology. In my last election editorial, I questioned the seemingly crazy decision on the part of Deval Patrick to enter the Democratic race in a rather, retrospectively speaking, crude manner. Although I attempted to mix serious commentary with a dash of humor, feedback I received from multiple readers did not respond to this attempt too well, and I can admit when I do wrong. Thus, if you ever end up reading this, Mr. Patrick, I sincerely apologize for judging you as harshly as I did; after all, I don’t anyone could have screwed up the Democratic primary more at this point than the Columbia Broadcasting System did on Tuesday, Feb. 25. 

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A student abroad: Two summers in South Korea

By Hannah Donahue · Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020

Once upon a time, at the age of 18, I imagined I would study, work and dwell within my rural town in New Hampshire for my entire life; that all changed once I received the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study abroad for eight weeks in Busan, South Korea during Summer 2018 and Gwangju, South Korea during Summer 2019.

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Election interference: What lurks in the Shadow

By Hannah Donahue · Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020

On Nov. 7, 2019, Pete Buttigieg got what he needed to skyrocket his positioning toward the top of the once-widespread pool of Democratic presidential candidates- an endorsement from The New Hampshire’s Managing Editor Ian Lenahan.

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Benjamin's Bench: Let's talk about Iowa

By Hannah Donahue · Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020

As I write this analysis of the 2020 Iowa Caucus – the first major contest of what is to be a fiery 2020 primary – I, like most Americans, depend on the Hawkeye State for an essential first impression, for it is our dependence on the Des Moines-led state and its voters that gives us our foremost picture of what has been, and what will certainly remain, a truly ambiguous contest. Most primary races throughout our history have been mired with tension and uncertainty, but this one – given its plethora of candidates and their myriad collection of arguments of why they are the only ones that can beat Trump – is especially important because it determines the fate of the Democratic party itself. Should progressives prevail early on, that momentum could put moderates in a bind and grant candidates like Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) an unprecedented tailwind that could reshape the left wing. Should moderates like former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, I.N., Mayor Pete Buttigieg win, however, it could symbolize the revenge of the Obama years and mark a potential third term (symbolically, at least) for America’s first African American president. Either way, it gives the party a path to take at a fork in a road immersed in a fog of doubt. 

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How trolls - not Trump - broke America

By Bret Belden · Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019

As the popular narrative of Trump's "collusion" with Russia in 2016 still reigns supreme, TNH's Benjamin Strawbridge argues it's just not that simple - and how an entire nation is to blame.

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