IOWA CITY, Iowa — Is the spectacle being conducted here — with dozens of candidate visits each month, with political forums in village libraries, with house parties in rural crossroads and with meet-and-greet events in union halls — an endangered species? For nearly a half-century, Iowa’s precinct caucuses, the first political test of modern presidential-election seasons, have […]

Do you believe election results are final? Do you believe government officials should have to abide by election results? Do you believe election results represent a legal mandate from the people? If your answer is a resounding yes with an eye roll, you’re not alone. This should be a no-brainer. Of course, in the United […]

In case you haven’t heard of her yet, Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish girl who has been manufactured into the new face of climate change. Credited with being the founder of the Youth Strike for Climate movement (a publicity-seeking strategy whereby students skip school to urge governments to do more about climate change), Greta […]

Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac Nature is the perfect example of a system wherein everything works in tandem to produce a desired result. No single living organism lives completely isolated or independently of […]

I’m angry, our system is supposed to work for us, but it doesn’t! I’m tired of being told that elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents, and watching their persistent inaction and failure. One of the interesting features of English language is the labels that are provided for groups of animals; perhaps the pride […]

The day before he died, Martin Luther King said these words at a packed church in Memphis: “Men for years now have been talking about war and peace. Now no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world, it is nonviolence or nonexistence. That is […]