Commentary: New Hampshire’s kitchen-table issues carry the weight of the world

Commentary: New Hampshire’s kitchen-table issues carry the weight of the world

Voting booths at Webster Elementary School in Manchester on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by Maya Mitchell/New Hampshire Bulletin)At any kitchen table in any small New Hampshire town, the challenges are immense and layered. In the most panoramic view, our kitchen-table family can see ancient and ever-present existential threats come into focus: war, famine and pestilence. Each looming catastrophe, however dormant or remote, holds the potent…