Democracy is evidently better for trade and the economy than dictatorship. Donald Trump has spent a year setting illegal tariffs by fiat, without collaborating or…
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The Board of Elections showed its usefulness last November in shooting down one of Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s worse ideas: replacing nominating petitions with…
Yesterday was a noteworthy day in initiative trivia (initiatrivia?) in that it was not noteworthy. Speaker Jon Hansen and his fellow South Dakota Republicans, who…
King Don isn’t dismantling democracy just because he likes to be king. To sustain his increasing concentration of wealth, King Don has to quash the democratic…
On Sunday I discussed the inconsistency of Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s proposal to allow candidates to skip petitions and pay filing fees to get…
I am ashamed to live in a nation whose authoritarian, anti-democratic ruler claims he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than the actual winner, Maria…
Pope Francis Speaks at COP28 Saturday, Seeking Global Democratic Cooperation to Fight Climate Change
Pope Francis turns 87 on December 17, and he’s got lung cooties, but he’s still going to Dubai next weekend to tell humanity to stop…
Former South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler joins the chorus of honest citizens who recognize Donald Trump threatens democracy in America: Pressler has been sizing-up the…
Holly Meyer, who once upon a time reported for the Rapid City Journal and now edits global religion news for Associated Press, reminds us that…
Ohio Republicans tried the same election-rigging trick as South Dakota Republicans did in 2022: anticipating a vote on a constitutional amendment they didn’t like (abortion…