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The whole world is watching Donald Trump
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Since U.S. news plays prominently around the world, the question I am asked most often right now is what I think will happen...
Observations from a now-retired OKCPS board member
(Editor's Note: The following is text from long-time Oklahoma City Public School Board member Phil Horning's farewell address delivered Feb. 1. It has been...
Sanders reawakens Oklahoma’s socialist roots
It was déjà vu all over again, at least for me, when my wife and I joined the multicultural, multi-generational crowd cheering Bernie Sanders.
On...
At SXSW, Obama will find a microcosm of U.S. challenges
AUSTIN, Texas — We don’t yet know when President Obama will touch down in Austin this week. We do know he’ll be in town...
Trump’s popularity swells on ‘tide of distraction’
(Editor’s Note: Vital Conversations is a running series of commentaries from various faith leaders. The series is sponsored by Phillips Theological Seminary, though contributions...
CEO: ‘MakeOKBetter’ by taking federal health care funds
WAGONER — Rural hospitals across Oklahoma are in crisis.
Each year, Oklahoma hospitals absorb more than $560 million in unreimbursed care for their uninsured and...
‘Birthday,’ a short story
(Editor's note: Birthday is a short story from Oklahoma author Andy Bowen.)
It was a cold morning in December in 1953, and Jack Farley's '39 Ford...
WTF v. FTW: Church-state debate and criminal-justice reform
Checks and balances. Win some, lose some.
Following last week's advancement of two bills that potentially threaten Oklahomans' health in more ways than one, the...
Letter: SQ 777 ‘has nothing to do with family farming’
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc believes in creating a responsible forum for the rational and respectful discussion of topics and ideas. As such, we run Letters to...
Work-first economic policies ‘now widely discredited’
Since the 1990s, both education and social policy have shifted gears away from coordinated, comprehensive efforts to fight poverty and toward reward-and-punish policies to...
