How did an organization that advocates for Vermont’s migrant farmworkers become the state’s leading organizer of opposition to U.S. immigration policy? In this week’s cover story, Lucy Tompkins traces the history, accomplishments and dramatic growth of Mi... See more
Seven Days book critic Margot Harrison couldn’t get enough of Tim Weed’s 2025 “cli-fi” novel, The Afterlife Project. In this week’s issue, she reviews the Putney author’s latest release, The Gatepost. In the May 13 paper, we published a feature on investi... See more
On the cover of this week’s Seven Days is Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, whose likeness crowns the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. In our illustration, she is holding a sign asking for donations. At the risk of overexplaining, the image — tied... See more
Vermonters in pickup trucks and Subarus honked their horns for World Press Freedom on Saturday, at the urging of a small but enthusiastic group assembled at the top of Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace. Almost a dozen of us from Seven Days joined mem... See more
It feels like an eternity since I messed up my left knee. Roughly three months have passed since I felt a strange new pain in there. I spent most of the winter hobbling around, hoping it would heal on its own, and wrote about the experience in this column... See more
