In 2008, the Des Moines Register endorsed then Senator Barack Obama for president over Senator John McCain. For largely inexplicable reasons, this year the
Category: History
Daniel Ellsberg’s advice to disappointed progressives
Dear Disappointed, Daniel Ellsberg feels your pain. He knows that Obama hasn’t lived up to your expectations. He won’t argue with you on that
When a museum forgets that it’s a museum
It’s disappointing that those who are in charge at the Missouri History Museum seem to have forgotten an important rule when it comes to
“The Self Destruction of the 1 Percent”
Chrystia Freeland’s October 13th, New York Times opinion piece, “The Self Destruction of the 1 Percent” compares the rise of the oligarchy in 14th century Venice
Chemical cuisine: What’s in your gullet?
You know something’s wrong when you walk down the aisles in your local supermarket, and you no longer see the food on the shelves
Deadly leftovers: Unexploded mines and bombs
Imagine this. Dusk is falling. You’re in your kitchen getting ready to put dinner on the table for your family. The kids are outside
Profiles in courage: 2012 edition
The true democracy . . . puts its faith in the people –faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent
Todd Akin’s colonial-era ideas
Where does Todd Akin get the idea that, when she’s raped, a “woman’s body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?”
I support vouchers, except in 50 states
Back in the 1970s, when the presumed (though not necessarily true) reflections of the 1960s still shined a bit, I was involved in the
JFK assassination or 9-11: Which was worse?
It’s a somewhat esoteric question to ask what was worse, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 or the four commercial jet