Rich Wandschneider

The “Manifest Destiny” we learned about in high school history classes has in fact been a push by Anglo-American Protestants to manage the continent.

As for another border dispute, Trump has not announced a status for future Greenland, nor even advanced ideas of how it might be governed from Washington.

Gwen was a respected man who could be disagreed with amicably, and he provided a forum for community conversation and understanding that is sorely missed today.

Was the American Revolution Christian from the beginning? It's not in the founding documents or in the Founders' religions.

We know now that Oregon was a big KKK state, and that Governor Walter Pierce (yes, Pierce Library at Eastern Oregon College was named after him) was a big sympathizer if not a member.

With the Secretary of Defense’s decision, Rickert writes that Hegseth was not erasing woke politics and preserving real history, as he claimed, but “protecting a lie.”

What we have left to bring us together, and I mean Republicans and Democrats, Presbyterians, Catholics, and agnostics, young and old, is food.

Her genius would link the politics of the day with older thought, culminating in the 1951 publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Totalitarianism, said Arendt, was something new, something beyond old concepts of autocracy and dictatorship, because it was “total,” its reach extending to the all-encompassing remanufacture of truth.

Vietnam was a war that would not end. We kept looking for a way out.

There’s a pattern here. People using what we once thought of as temporary housing or vacation housing as full-time housing.