Maybe the guest article a couple of weeks ago by professor Rebecca Glazier from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is on to something about religious community. If church and synagogue can be a bigger part of the solution against political polarization, it would be after acknowledging ...
In the wake of the recent Utah Supreme Court ruling, there’s chatter about hiking the signature threshold for ballot initiatives to an alarming level — think 400,000 signatures instead of the current 134,600. The idea, they say, is to prevent jungle primaries or fend off laws that might ...
Republicans handed Usha Vance the unenviable task of cleaning up her husband's history of hostile comments regarding women. Alas, she tried. Specifically, Usha attempted to dismiss J.D. Vance's trashing of "childless cat ladies" as a "quip." A "quip" is a witty or clever remark, often ...
Free things are now being colonized across social spaces and public squares. Since 2020, for example, togetherness at work retreated to the private virtual sphere. There's no better time to beware the social price we pay for privatizing time, water, air, news, and human attention and ...
Today people are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine actually said, "The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody; we created it." An MSNBC "expert" claims "American slavery was worse because slaves were treated as property." "That's ...
For the past four years, inflation has rattled local small businesses across the country. The inflation rate peaked in 2022, but of course the cost of goods never went back down. In fact, the prices just kept rising, just not at the same clip they had been rising at the peak. In short, gas ...
