I’ve wondered if Donald Trump’s election win last year meant that we are doomed now to a cycle of emotional, demagogic, logic- and evidence-free campaigns…
Category: national
In a new Atlantic article on the maladaptation of the smartphone generation, psychology professor Jean M. Twenge says a decline in independent behaviors (which she…
Jennifer Rubin offers this poignant assessment of our pretend President: Trump has been weirdly animated about the hurricane, exclaiming on Twitter about the unprecedented nature…
Donald Trump thinks his threat to shut down the federal government if Congress won’t fund the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for to keep…
In this week’s corporate fascism file, Energy Transfer Partners is suing Greenpeace and other environmental groups who protested ETP’s Dakota Access pipeline. ETP portrays the…
The collapse appears to have collapsed. Every county in the U.S. has an insurer providing Affordable Care Act marketplace health policies: Earlier this summer, 19…
Perhaps our American Indian friends can bring some civilization to the white man: American Indian tribes for decades have been able to tell federal prosecutors…
Like millions of Americans and welcome guests, my family ventured to the path of totality—perhaps the most cosmic-sounding thing to which we have ever traveled—looked…
Former Rapid City mayor Sam Kooiker continues serving the public in his home state of Iowa. After being unseated by Steve Allender in 2015, he…