Edward Miller

At his first inaugural on March 4, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said this: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear […]

A March 27 pronouncement titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” ordered the secretary of the interior to take action to ensure that public properties “do not contain descriptions, […]

A few weeks ago in this column, I mentioned that I grew up in New Jersey as a red diaper baby, that is, the child of Communists. As my sister, […]

Louis DeJoy is no longer postmaster general, but his five years at the head of the U.S. Postal Service wreaked havoc on its essential mission. One of the few things […]

Two weeks ago in this column, I wrote about a group of kids on Long Island who have started a newspaper called The Ditch Weekly, which was described by its […]

The alert about a last-minute concert at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House came too late for an announcement in the newspaper. Jennifer Shannon, president of the congregation, emailed on Friday […]

Every summer, the Provincetown Independent, with funding from the Local Journalism Project, welcomes four college students who spend 10 weeks researching and writing articles for the newspaper. This summer’s group […]

When we were researching the idea of launching the Independent, one big question was whether the Outer Cape economy was strong enough to support a newspaper. We had looked across […]

“Please cancel my subscription,” a reader wrote to us the other day. “We subscribed to your paper to get the local news from the Outer Cape, but lately it seems […]

Words matter to us in this line of work. Maybe we don’t always choose just the right ones, but we spend a lot of time worrying over them. When writers […]

All our towns have now navigated through another annual town meeting cycle, and it’s worth stopping to consider the significance of this peculiar New England tradition. Wellfleet Town Moderator Dan […]

Conservative columnist David French writes in the New York Times this week that he has “a complicated relationship with Harvard.” So do I. French grew up in a small town […]

At first it seemed that if this experiment in authoritarianism was going to break our hearts, we’d somehow stand firm. Now it’s pillaging our very minds. The National Science Foundation […]

“America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution.” As the New Yorker’s David Remnick points out, that’s […]