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Five takeaways from the Oklahoma teacher walkout
In Oklahoma, West Virginia, Kentucky and other conservative states, teachers have led innovative forms of resistance. The following are the lessons I take from the...
Quite the quandary: Q followers feel let down
Where do we Q from here? The broad question about the Q Anon movement has been asked by many recently, but with Joe Biden's...
The kind of political charisma we need now
What gets a president to the Oval Office isn't the same thing that would get the country where we need to go: a sane and functional system of...
Remembering the ‘prairie power’ of Oklahoma’s student protest years
Now is the time to commit to cross-generational conversations, with Baby Boomers listening to Millennials and Gen Z-ers and sharing our experiences from the...
State agency Twitter accounts: The good, the surprising, the inactive
Twitter lists are one of the most underrated facets of social media. As someone who uses social media more for work than for fun,...
Students need more than a citizenship test to prepare for civic engagement
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...
That time we were a ‘porno’ site
During the December doldrums when some media spend a great deal of ink "covering" obscure, radical and/or unlikely-to-advance bills filed early by legislators, I'd...
There’s no such thing as a ‘wasted vote’
The presidential election is 35 days away from this writing, and candidates are doing everything in their power to convince voters to vote for...
Don’t Star Wars my Star Trek
With regard to science fiction, there are two franchises that epitomize the genre in the popular consciousness. While superficially similar, further examination reveals that, thematically, Star...
‘Things fall apart’: a pandemic diary
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...