Opinion: The key thing to understand is that fairness is not about the outcomes, it is about the process whereby the outcomes are achieved.
Episode 6: We ask a physician whether challenge trials — intentionally exposing people to the virus — would have sped up vaccine development a…
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Soon private citizen Donald Trump will become the first former president to face a Senate impeachment trial, almost a year to the day when, as…
Cue Jackie DeShannon’s “What the World Needs Now is Love.” I’m about to drive around town, windows down, blasting it from my mom-car speakers …
Most calls to “national unity” are vacuous pap. They are unrealistic, kumbaya pleas to “come together” around nothing.
Words have the power to inspire or incite.
A picture in The Bismarck Tribune on Jan. 6 shows Trump supporters on the steps of the North Dakota Capitol with a cross. Television footage s…
Memories of the footage of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will be forever etched in the minds of the citizenry. No Amer…
After the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, many were quick to blame President Donald Trump for inciting the violence.
There seems to be only one area of common ground in our country today: agreement that something is wrong.
“Over the last 72 hours, I have received multiple death threats and thousands upon thousands of emails from Christians saying the nastiest and…
Last fall, The Bismarck Tribune ran several stories about vandalism that took place in Bismarck and Mandan. One suspect was arrested because t…
Opinion: For decades we have told our youth to “stay true to yourself” and “stick up for what you believe,” as if there were some virtue in st…
Episode 5: We also discuss whether the Republican Party would be in a stronger place today had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in 2016.
There’s a whole list of “thems” you could fit into the “can’t live with them, can’t live without them” catch phrase.
To its horror, America witnessed on Jan. 6, 2021, an insurrection. Millions watched, in real time.
Awe and reverence. I remember the first time I entered the U.S. Capitol. I was 14 or so. I came down from Pennsylvania by train, and I was ove…
While watching the incredible scenes from the U.S. Capitol this week, it was hard not to think about Josh. No, not Josh Hawley. Josh Williams.
Wednesday was a horrifying and shameful moment in American history.
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In my October and December columns, I shared statistics regarding statewide COVID-19 deaths and made predictions about deaths to come. In toda…
Efforts by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to subvert the clerk-like, ministerial and ceremonial counting of electoral vo…
In the American West, a ration of reverence is usually given to the grizzled Anglo rancher who rises at a public hearing and announces that hi…
“It’s A Wonderful Life” starring James Stewart has a happy ending in the singing of "Auld Lang Syne." All of us who have endured the year 2020…
How many of you find yourself today exactly where you planned to be in life, or even one year ago. Anyone? No one?
This is the year that broke the truth. This is the year when millions of Americans — and not just your political opponents — seemed impervious…
One of the many beauties of freedom is there is always surprise.