Commentary

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‘Things fall apart’: a pandemic diary

Armando Celayo - Wednesday, May 13, 2020

May 1, 2020 Oklahoma City I’ll be honest with you: My life hasn’t changed much since the pandemic forced all of us to shelter inside and...

‘Quarantined in a lonely paradise’: A pandemic diary

Ruth Askew Brelsford - Thursday, May 21, 2020

April 16, 2020 Red Oak Tomorrow marks the end of the fifth week that my husband Les and I have been in lockdown. Except for a...

‘In love with being alive’: Essay winners age 15-18

Tres Savage - Thursday, May 28, 2020

What's the only thing better than winning an essay contest? How about winning it unanimously. In the 15-18 age category for NonDoc's first spring essay...

The beat is on: Meet NonDoc’s new education reporter

Megan Prather - Thursday, September 10, 2020

I owe my passion for journalism to my public education. When I joined my high school newspaper staff in 2010, we we worked under...

Absentee voting enters the danger zone

Brian Davis - Monday, September 21, 2020

I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy, so I have looked at every angle trying to convince myself that absentee voting won’t turn into a...

New depths of boredom after a year with COVID

Mike Allen - Sunday, March 14, 2021

We have had a year with COVID, huh? I can hardly wrap my head around it, frankly, and if you were to ask me what...

Students need more than a citizenship test to prepare for civic engagement

Amy Curran - Friday, March 26, 2021

The recently overhauled social studies curriculum standards set out the lofty vision that Oklahoma schools should “develop informed, competent, and responsible citizens who are politically...