Opinion
Patriarchy and Misogyny
Guest Opinion
By Walt Wood | Sept. 13, 2025
Our Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal. A proper rewording of that phrase for the 21st century would be: “All people are created equal.” But that would be “woke” and unacceptable. Putting women on an equal footing with men is forbidden by the current powers that be. Almost 250 years after Jefferson’s timeless document, we still refuse to treat women as equals. While MAGA rules, men’s rights from … Read More >>
One Race, One Religion
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | Sept. 13, 2025
White Christians. That is the future of America envisioned by some in the so-called MAGA movement. But you don’t have to take my word for it since they are happy to tell their own, sordid story. First, let’s visit our old friend Ryan Walters, since 2023 the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. Walters ordered the Ten Commandments be posted prominently in every classroom, something that courts in seven other states have … Read More >>
The Politics of Culture
Guest Opinion
By Karen Mulvahill | Sept. 6, 2025
Art often serves as an early warning sign and as the last bastion of truth. When Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, it was to draw attention to the horrific bombing of this town in northern Spain by the Germans, with the support of the Spanish government. George Orwell wrote 1984 to sound the alarm of what living under a totalitarian government was like. The Gulag Archipelago was written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to document … Read More >>
Fantasies and Delusions
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | Sept. 6, 2025
Every department of the federal government is led by a political appointee trying to implement, where possible, the policies of the president who appointed them. It means political shenanigans can be the norm rather than the exception. We accept those shenanigans change depending on the resident at the White House. The exception has typically been the health component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has traditionally relied on … Read More >>
Leadership Lost
Guest Opinion
By Gary Muller | Aug. 30, 2025
Last summer, my brother and I travelled to upstate New York to visit relatives. We visited Hyde Park, the home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the location of his Presidential Museum and Library. This year, my wife and I visited Independence, Missouri, where President Harry Truman lived and where his Presidential Museum and Library are located. The National Park Service does a fantastic job giving tours and sharing historical facts about … Read More >>
Union Workers and Big Yellow Buses
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | Aug. 30, 2025
Another Labor Day will be marginally celebrated and mostly forgotten. It’s just a meaningless day off for many people. We might as well call it No Labor Day. The first hint of such a holiday occurred in New York in 1882, a parade specifically celebrating union workers. It became a federal holiday in 1894. May 1 was the initial idea, but it came too close to other worker holidays, so was moved … Read More >>
Lying About Crime
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | Aug. 23, 2025
First, you spend years and years denigrating and devaluing institutions on which people rely. You call the data they produce “fake news” or a “hoax” or a “scam.” When the numbers and reports do not emerge exactly the way you want, you fire whoever is reporting them. Then you just make up your own data. We’ve seen this most recently with crime statistics, illegal immigration, and jobs numbers, plus a revisit to … Read More >>
The EPA Is in Danger
Guest Opinion
By Lauren Teichner | Aug. 23, 2025
Red alert. The Trump Administration is now going after the very cornerstone of U.S. climate action: the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding. This landmark legal and scientific determination is what gives the EPA its authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act. On Aug. 1, 2025, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin filed a proposed rule that would “repeal all . . . emission standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles … Read More >>
The Road Less Traveled
Guest Opinion
By Quinn De Vecchi | Aug. 23, 2025
Imagine this: You’ve decided to move suddenly from one state to another, totaling over 2,000 miles. You have a choice to take a slightly expensive flight and mail all your belongings later, like many do. All you have to do is book the ticket and make a quick stop at USPS. Easy. But what if you didn’t do that? What if—and hear me out on this—you decided to cancel those plans and … Read More >>
What About the Girls?
Guest Opinion
By Isiah Smith, Jr. | Aug. 16, 2025
*Sensitive Content: This column includes a discussion of sexual assault. In a hundred years, I shall never forget that 13-year-old child’s face, how her small, undeveloped body shrank as if disappearing into herself. She was 13 and a legally mandated participant in an adolescent group therapy session I led, along with my co-therapist, Angela, when I worked at South Dade Mental Health in Homestead, Florida. Little did we know the horrible trauma … Read More >>
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