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Re-visiting recent past is guide to better future

National Columnists

“What’s past is prologue” wrote William Shakespeare in “The Tempest,” a thought profound enough to be engraved on the National Archives building in Washington. As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a blip on history’s ledger compared to many other nations, we would do well to re-visit even the recent past as a guide to what can provide us a better future. That’s because even though technology changes, other things do not. At the end of each year, I enjoy exploring the events of a century ago, a period in which my parents and grandparents lived. When ...

Economist’s experience is wake-up call for Americans

National Columnists

Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, said in an interview about his newest book, “I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land,” that despite being convicted and jailed, he never broke. It is a sentiment he still carries with him today. The book is a vivid tale; he unpacks how he was a victim of a weaponized justice system while detailing his experiences in what he calls a flawed minimum-security ...

It’s nice to set family goals together

National Columnists

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but I do set goals. I take time to reflect on the previous year to look at what I’d like to build upon, what I’d like to scrap and what could use a tweaking in the new year. My husband does something similar. This year, instead of just setting individual goals I thought we could make family goals, too. It felt like another way to bring us together instead of operating in individual silos, each of us firing off in different directions. I wanted to see where our goals overlapped and prioritize those as family goals we all worked on together. ...

Make plans to celebrate nation’s 250th birthday in ND

Editorials

2025 is coming to an end and soon will be a year to look back on. Whether it was a good year or not, it is for you to decide. Now we can look ahead to 2026, a year that will mark the 250th birthday or U.S. Semiquincentennial of our nation. This major national celebration will culminate on July 4, 2026, marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed and 250 years of American independence. Events and other activities are being planned across the country, including right here in North Dakota. Celebrations and other activities, including for schools and ...

How artificial intelligence undermines education

National Columnists

If you want to develop human intelligence, you can’t let students rely on artificial intelligence. Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs that create new content based on prompts or questions submitted by a user. You can imagine the problems this has created for schools and teachers. Programs like ChatGPT can solve a student’s hardest math problem and spit out papers in seconds. Some in the education establishment believe the best path forward is to teach students ...

Great writers take us to many places

National Columnists

After Christmas is over, and the sunrises start getting earlier and the sunsets later in the Northern Hemisphere, there are still two months of scarce daylight and lowering skies ahead. Here’s a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours with uplift: read. Read some great books, returning perhaps to those you ploughed through on school assignments so many years ago. Discover one of the pleasures of aging — how serious books turn out to be more interesting and enriching than what you remember from dutifully ploughing through them years ago. Sit in a comfortable chair, turn off ...