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Some call the assault on the Capitol unprecedented, but we have seen this before
I’ve been writing about Oklahoma’s place in the American master narrative for a while now. My sense that we’re the repository for the nation’s...
Pop quiz: What is jeopardizing the state of Oklahoma?
This week in "How We Are Prolonging Bad Things" we have Gov. Kevin Stitt versus parents and teachers. It's a bout for the ages,...
Imagine the day-to-day life of the Q Shaman
This might be a lukewarm take at this point, but what the country and world witnessed on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol was simply...
Book review: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn examine America’s epidemic of despair
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope begins in Kristof’s hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, with his childhood neighbor, Dee, hiding from her...
Letter: U.S. Sen. James Lankford ‘discounting the American people’s voice’
To the editors:
U.S. Sen. James Lankford’s position against counting state certified electoral votes is a profile in cowardice, if not worse — attempted sedition.
Loyalists...
The year that was: 2020 blew up the bathroom
Bathroom humor. It's about the only thing 2020 deserves at this point.
Normally, as we transition into a new year, there comes a time where...
Visuals of our culture: 2020 in photographs
Photographing the pandemic year of 2020 has certainly had its challenges.
Most notably for me were the cancellations of so many events, particularly art and...
All we want for Christmas is more COVID-19 vaccine
It's a Christmas miracle! Or, might be? It's hard to say how the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine will go, or how many...
The coronavirus turns into a pumpkin at 11 p.m.
Another week of our time in a pandemic and another revelation about the weird rules we have given ourselves in this state. At a press...
Day of fasting a brief end for endless breadsticks?
In times of crisis, we often turn toward comfortable things to give us a sense of normalcy. A joke I've made on here before...
