Additional Articles

• GOP, Dems both have bluebird moment

  It is Judy Garland versus Vera Lynn. It is the 1939 song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” versus the 1942 hit “The White Cliffs of Dover.” It is America in its prewar reverie versus Great Britain in its wartime trial.

  21 hours ago

• The core of Trumpism

  Jodi Doering, an emergency room nurse in South Dakota, tweeted this description of COVID-19 patients she’s been treating: “The ones that stick out are those who still don’t believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine, and that Joe Biden is going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath ... They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. Yes. This really happens.”

  21 hours ago

• Keeping our economy and schools open

  Like most South Dakotans, I want to keep our schools open and our economy strong. If we don’t get COVID-19 under control, that’s going to be increasingly difficult.

  1 day ago

• For Trump cultists, COVID is the new Kool-Aid

  New rule: Once a political dispute reaches the Rudy Giuliani stage, there’s nothing left but punchlines.

  1 day ago

• Country might benefit from fewer tweets

  Here at what looks like a great divide – between election cycles for sure, and possibly in the very topography of the nation’s story – an inquiry: Might the United States benefit from becoming a “tweet less” society?

  1 day ago

• Be kind to others, wear a mask

  Governor Noem continues to insist that her personal responsibility strategy in corralling COVID-19 has been a success because South Dakota has not reached the number of hospitalizations and deaths forecast by the worst-case scenario she presented in early March.

  2 days ago

• Care about those around you – wear a mask

  I have watched with consternation and dismay – and, yes, sadness – at the happenings in my home state. I think back to March when so many of us willingly stayed home. We sewed masks for our essential workers, family and friends and checked if our neighbors had enough toilet paper.

  2 days ago

• Dealing with loss a difficult process

  As you get older, there’s a tendency to lose things: your hair; your athletic physique; your phone; your vocabulary; your memory. When you finish combing your hair, the comb always has strands of something gray.

  2 days ago

• Being thankful

  James Crews is the editor of a very timely anthology entitled “Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection,” published by Green Writers Press.

  2 days ago

• ‘Defund the Police’ and the damage done

  Remember the debate over the meaning of the phrase “defund the police”?

  5 days ago

• Giving South Dakotans a voice in Washington

  Recently, I was humbled to have been reelected by my colleagues to serve as the Republican whip, or assistant majority leader, the second-highest position in Senate Republican leadership.

  5 days ago

• Catholic beliefs and Catholic responsibility

  “Are you celebrating?” The Uber driver’s question took me a little off-guard. And then he may have gotten an earful from me. He was talking about the election. And my answer was “no.”

  5 days ago

• An American life: A life of purpose

  So endeth one of the great American lives.

  1 year ago

• Debate surrounding acting legal AG’s legal authority intensifies

  Washing-ton – If you are having a hard time keeping track of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, you are not alone.

  2 years ago