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By the People, for the People
Grassroots Candidates - By the People, for the People We hear people on social media and in person often expressing distrust of government officials and party politics due the millions of dollars by…
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Shame On You, Cornell
I have tried to find a calm way to write about what happened at Cornell, and I can't, so I'm not going to pretend. In October 2024, a 20-year-old student walked into the Chi Phi fraternity house in…
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Inherited Certainty
Yesterday, in the same hallway, I passed two kids from opposite ends of the political spectrum, each one fully costumed in conviction, and it stopped me in a way that surprised me, because I've…
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"A Lamb's Tale"
Some of the shows I most enjoy watching are genealogy programs: “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”, on PBS; the UK version of “Who Do You Think You Are?”; and “Every Family Has a…
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The Social Security Question Congress Doesn't Have to Answer
I started asking a simple question: How many members of Congress are collecting Social Security while also collecting their congressional salaries? I expected to find the answer. I didn't. What I…
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One State, Two States, Red State, Blue State
I live in Oklahoma, a state that today is unmistakably red. Republicans dominate Oklahoma politics. They hold the governor’s office and both chambers of the state Legislature, giving the party what…
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Six Cameras, Zero Warrants
There are six Flock Safety cameras in Tahlequah right now. One sits near the police department. Another was bolted onto a traffic pole at Muskogee Avenue and Willis Road this summer, solar powered,…
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Two People, One Beginning
When my daughter was pregnant with twins, she made a promise to herself. She would never allow her children to lose their individual identities simply because they happened to arrive in the world at…
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Shame On You, Cornell
I have tried to find a calm way to write about what happened at Cornell, and I can't, so I'm not going to pretend. In October 2024, a 20-year-old student walked into the Chi Phi fraternity house in…
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Inherited Certainty
Yesterday, in the same hallway, I passed two kids from opposite ends of the political spectrum, each one fully costumed in conviction, and it stopped me in a way that surprised me, because I've…
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Six Cameras, Zero Warrants
There are six Flock Safety cameras in Tahlequah right now. One sits near the police department. Another was bolted onto a traffic pole at Muskogee Avenue and Willis Road this summer, solar powered,…
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Where Do We Belong?
In my recent article, “Where Do I Belong?” I found myself considering where my ancestral loyalty belongs. Do I look to my European ancestors, or to my Native American ancestors? The answer, I…
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Last week I was sitting in a classroom at Yale, wearing scrubs, learning how to suture a fake wound next to a girl named Emily from Colorado I'd known for three days. That's not something I expected…
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By the People, for the People
Grassroots Candidates - By the People, for the People We hear people on social media and in person often expressing distrust of government officials and party politics due the millions of dollars by…
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Shame On You, Cornell
I have tried to find a calm way to write about what happened at Cornell, and I can't, so I'm not going to pretend. In October 2024, a 20-year-old student walked into the Chi Phi fraternity house in…
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"They"
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, they has several definitions. This column focuses on one in particular: "Used to refer to people in a general way or to a group of people who are not…
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People expect twins to be a matched set. They ask if we finish each other's sentences, if we felt it when the other got hurt, if there's some wordless current running between us that outsiders can't…
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