Someone to pull us out of a ditch
Our opinion: North Dakota nice is alive and well
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‘I’m not buying it, and neither should you’
To the Editor: The attacks against Senator Heidi Heitkamp by out-of-state partisans follow a predictable formula: Find a wedge issue that inflames people on…
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Can the castle on the hill be saved?
Our opinion: The Kirkbride building has awed, inspired, and provided sustenance.
Read NowA bloody stage-four gun-culture cancer
The deafening sounds of silenceWhat have you heard from the Trumpistan gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, and members of The Best Congress Money…
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A confession (of sorts) and a radical’s lament
By Gary [email protected] Radical: Derived from the Latin radix, which literally means the root or base. In political terms it means penetrating beyond conventional…
Read NowBrave new world, part two
When will we learn to share wealth?Last week I wrote about how many predictions made by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 book “Brave New…
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Go ask ALICE
Our opinion: Fire drills, tornado drills and lockdowns
Read NowDetermined dreamers and real indictments confront a counterfeit Moses
“He (Abraham Lincoln) would have proven the best friend the South could have had and saved much of the wrangling and bitterness of feeling…
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Is it the end of liberal education?
Do we finally have ‘beauteous mankind in a brave new world?’British philosopher and writer Aldous Huxley used a line of Miranda’s speech in Shakespeare’s…
Read NowWhy so little empathy and compassion within American culture?
By Gary [email protected] The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas; the class which is the ruling material force…
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Savoring local flavor
What draws people to a particular area? Food? Culture? Nostalgia? It’s hard to speak on behalf of the populace but we obviously know what…
Read NowAmerican politics: divided by a common language
The Kremlin’s campaign to help Trump win the White House had a primary goal. That was to bring about an end to America’s economic…
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Cramer vs. Cramer
To the editor: Congressman Cramer often boasts of his unfiltered honesty – and while his comments on women’s clothing or defense of Nazi comparisons…
Read NowA sitting monument
The Gadfly
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Eating detergent and road apples? We’re fit to be Tide
Our opinion: Are we de-evolving or am I just getting old?
Read NowChristians who raise Cain
Of witches, goblins, snakes, and other malefactors
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Does the Bible really tell me so?
Helen Grace James
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To the Editor: If I were in politics, I would be a radical moderate or a middle-of-the-road extremist. But I am a writer and…
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Buffers and habitats
To the editor: Meridian Energy Group is doing things the right way with the Davis Refinery. Much has been made about the local impact,…
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To the Editor: It may be true to say that women are generally patient but persistent. History shows a long and winding road to…
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Immigration and prejudice: America’s long racist stroll
Our opinion: The statistics the state’s so-called “Alt-right” doesn’t want you to know
Read NowHealth care: Privilege of class or right of citizenship?
How often do we ask “How much?”
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Of Beards and women: a Fargo fable
By Gary [email protected] “Kissing a man without a beard is like eating an egg without salt.”— Dutch proverb, probably written by a man. “Kissing…
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