North Dakota’s healthcare market has been evolving, and the speed of the change has been picking up.  Representatives of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota who spoke with The Minot Daily News recently indicated the continuing evolution could make healthcare not only better but help ...

Today’s political parties lack ideas. The Republicans define themselves as opponents of Democrats. Yet many of the GOP economic policy positions resemble, with minor variations, those of Democrats. Meanwhile, the Democrats repeat the same simplistic refrain: “solve” every problem with ...

Last month the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced a Tolley man who was killed during World War II was accounted for on June 21. Army Pvt. 1st Class Robert Alexander, who died at age 27, is the most recent military member from North Dakota to be accounted for by the Washington, ...

We live in a deeply serious time with deeply unserious leaders. Historian Niall Ferguson has written that the “extreme violence of the twentieth century” was precipitated by three preconditions: “ethnic conflict, economic volatility, and empires in decline.” It is difficult not to see ...

This column is the last chapter of my book, “If History Is of Any Value: Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Event of 2019-2022” (forthcoming in December 2022). The book begins with columns written between May and September 2020 that traced parallels between the antebellum and Civil ...

Europe is running out of time to save itself. Those of us here on the continent feel like we’re watching an entirely avoidable slow-motion train wreck, whose protagonists horrifically insist on blowing past every possible exit ramp en route to disaster. The warnings keep rolling in one ...