No one is claiming Tim Johnson was a left-wing stalwart, but can you imagine what it would be like to elect a Democrat to the Senate from South Dakota today? RIP. I've been in Laramie, Wyoming for the last few days and asking around about...
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It's just so hard to not see the American electorate as a bunch of morons. We see this again and again, where people will vote on a single issue that.
The farm states are freaking out because the rise of electric vehicles could undermine their model of plowing up half the nation for corn that we don't need and thus.
Nick Estes has a typically good piece placing the resistance of Nick Tilsen and other Lakotas to Donald Trump's visit to Mt. Rushmore in the context of the long struggle of the Lakotas for the Black Hills. Tilsen is the president and CEO of NDN...
A shirt hangs outside of a store during the 80th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally on Aug. 7, 2020 in Sturgis, S.D. I'm reading this op-ed from a few days ago.
The horrifying death rates of COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation have finally gotten the nation's attention. Native Americans are effectively forgotten about by the nation--even on the left--outside of very.
Interesting piece here on the history of Republicans adding states to ensure Senate majorities, going all the way back to Lincoln. Once upon a time, nobody lived in Nevada.In 1860, the year Abraham Lincoln was elected president, Nevada was a desert wasteland with fewer than...
Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after threatening black students with violence if they tried to eat at his restaurant. Well, the GOP is taking over that mantle and it's.
In our long history with Native Americans, there is much we should be ashamed of. First and foremost, it's that even today and even on the left, Native issues simply.
I write from Helena, Montana, in a very brief return to civilization from days of camping and hiking in our nation's most beautiful places, all of which are in the West, because let's face it, everything in the eastern half of the nation is pretty...
I can think of no better way to provide quality education for our students than paying teachers so poorly that they are forced to get 2nd and 3rd jobs to.
I've long said that the most underrated state in the U.S. in terms of horrible racism is South Dakota. Such was the case when a group of academic achievers from.