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Opinion

Holding Space for Good

Columns

Earlier this month, our family participated in the local pride parade with a group from my husband's work. Before the parade, our son wanted to get a pride flag to wave. He has always loved flags and can identify the flags for most countries of the world. Flags are powerful symbols of identity, ...

Eric Erickson

Columns

There is a coherent worldview behind the vice president's foreign policy and that is exactly the problem. J.D. Vance does not stumble into the outcomes he produces. He believes in them. He sees a tripartite world with America secured in its own hemisphere, Russia dominant across its near abroad ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Thank you from Omega House To the Editor: On behalf of everyone at Omega House, I would like to extend our gratitude to the many businesses, volunteers, and participants who made our Annual Omega House ATV Ride on Saturday, June 20, such an incredible success. Thanks to the generosity of our ...

Gary Franks

Columns

To borrow a golf term, President Donald Trump has finally agreed to take a "mulligan" per the war in Iran. Sadly, it was the most expensive mulligan in history, potentially amounting to half a trillion dollars, the deaths of 13 American service members, increased fuel costs, a major ...

Victor Joecks

Columns

Success often sows the seeds of future failure. That's the danger America faces now. America is a great and powerful country. But this shouldn't blind us to an obvious historical reality. Great empires rise — and fall. Just look at the history of the Roman Empire. Or the Babylonian Empire. ...

Jamie Stiehm

Columns

What a glorious day in June. The Barack Obama Presidential Center opening in Chicago gave us a complete contradiction of the times we've been living through. Community rather than chaos, lightness versus darkness, and hope instead of fear. I might add: beautiful music and language that ...