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Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley spoke during the second Republican presidential primary debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in California on Sept. 27.

SCOT LEHIGH

GOP presidential campaign in New Hampshire shows signs of life

Nikki Haley has overtaken Ron DeSantis in the race for second place in the Republican presidential nomination.

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COMMENTS

Letters to the editor of the Globe Magazine

Live free or die in New Hampshire, a ‘50s book ban with parallels to today, and more.

Carine Hajjar

Chris Christie takes on mission impossible in GOP presidential nomination race

Though it’s not likely the New Jersey governor will win the nomination, the questions he raises about fellow Republicans resonate with New Hampshire voters.

LETTERS

‘What did you learn in school today?’ (asking for a political stakeholder)

Those who are calling for "parents’ rights" are doing nothing of the sort; rather, they are fighting for the right of a small group of people to impose their views on others.

IDEAS | JOHN GOVE
Extreme weather forces New England farmers to be more collaborative than ever
Our farm has bountiful tomatoes and squash but an iffy corn crop. Next door the story might be the opposite.

SCOT LEHIGH
New Hampshire, please consider Asa Hutchinson
The former Arkansas governor may need Granite State help to make the stage for the second GOP debate.

COMMENTARY | WILL STEWART
Manchester needs a unified plan to functionally end homelessness
A mayoral candidate who is an alderman in Ward 2 says homelessness in Manchester is a humanitarian crisis — and should be treated as such.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen
How to expand, rather than obliterate, history
The imposing 25-foot granite statue of Hannah Duston was erected in Boscawen in 1874, on the site where she became a folk hero for a daring escape from Native American captors nearly 200 years before.

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SCOT LEHIGH

A helicopter waterbomber dropped water onto the Cameron Bluffs wildfire near Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada, on June 6.

Readers respond on climate change: We need action now

Yet some still insist it’s all a scam. 1:11 p.m.

David Daley

A clerk handed a ballot to a voter Nov. 8, 2022, in Lewiston, Maine. The state of Maine uses a ranked choice voting system for some of its election races.

Ranked choice voting deserves a place in presidential primaries

The current plurality system punishes voters and rewards candidates who have a fervent base and splintered opposition. 3:00 a.m.

CARINE HAJJAR

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy talked to members of the media on Wednesday after the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee.

Why Vivek Ramaswamy is catching on in New Hampshire and beyond

Can he move away from Trump’s politics of retribution without moving away from Trump voters? 1:14 p.m.

IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

John Gilbert Winant photographed by Harris & Ewing photographers on Jan. 1, 1937, when he was chair of the Social Security Board.

America needs more politicians like John Gilbert Winant

The three-term Republican governor of NH, FDR appointee, and ambassador to the UK put country ahead of party and was the soul of integrity. Let’s hope his kind hasn’t been consigned to history. 3:00 a.m.

JEFF JACOBY

Ayotte isn’t wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts

There really are deep-rooted differences between the two states. 3:00 a.m.

JEFF JACOBY

MCI-Cedar Junction prison in Walpole in 1993.

As capital punishment fades, progressives take aim at a new target

The long campaign to end executions will be replaced by a campaign to end life sentences without parole. 3:00 a.m.

COMMENTARY | Carolyn Dever and Olivia Gentile

A bicyclist passes a college tour group outside the Baker Library on Dartmouth Green at Dartmouth College, Friday, April 7, 2023, in Hanover, N.H.

Help Wanted in N.H.: Journalism without sexism

A local columnist lauded Dartmouth’s 19th president for his accomplishments, but when writing about the school’s first female president he focused on housework — and accused her of shirking it, another journalist and the school’s former provost note. 2:24 p.m.

RI HEALTH

Ward Thrasher of Providence is a patient at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients will receive investigational cancer treatments

One R.I. man’s battle with Stage 4 colon cancer: ‘You’re going to die no matter what. So fight this thing and beat it.’

Five years ago, Ward Thrasher was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. Clinical trials and advanced care accessible to him in Rhode Island have kept him alive and his quality of life high. 6:00 a.m.