Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas – home, at the time, to 250,000 enslaved Black people – and announced that the Civil War was over, slavery had ended, and Black people ...

Did you know that the bank JP Morgan agreed to a settlement recently with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein to pay them $290 million? The bank apparently chose to avoid a very ugly and public accounting in court for their business dealings with the convicted sex offender during a discovery ...

Even though we are a democracy, our government was designed to defy any democratic impulses that could sweep through society. After listening to campaigns full of promises, the people get fired up for action and then nothing much happens. Disappointed, they curse the incumbent and go ...

The annoyance of inappropriate things being posted to our Facebook page got us thinking. What is freedom, and what is taking away freedom? Again, we’re going to use our pie analogy to tie this all together. Imagine freedom as a nice, steaming apple pie. You have different slices of all the ...

I’m the kind of political junkie who seeks out a diversity of opinions and ideological outlooks in the content I consume. My YouTube algorithm swings wildly across the political spectrum and in their degrees of professionalism. This tableau of new media grifters, missing link journalists, ...

Yes, that’s right. The North Dakota Ethics Commission, consisting of five male types, is looking for prospects who may become members of the Commission. Hurry, the filing deadline is June 30. Now there were some folks – mostly legislators – who didn’t think North Dakota had enough ...