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Prejudice posing as principle
May 17, 2026 Commencement Photo courtesy of Smith College
Barely two weeks before Smith College’s May 17 graduation, the federal Department of Education announced it was launching a civil rights investigation into the 150-year old...
Election fear-mongering in Iowa: Marxists running schools, illegals getting our tax dollars
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Pre-election season always carries its share of exaggerations and name-calling - the claims that a contender lacks experience, changes positions for political expediency or doesn’t represent the real needs of di...
Now we're indicting over seashells
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The Des Moines Register has a front-page story today about a financial settlement between an Iowa school district and a teacher it was trying to fire over a personal Facebook post. It ended on the right no...
I may not be Catholic but the pope speaks for me on this
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Trump as Jesus
This piece also appears in the Sunday Des Moines Register
“The Pope is the t...
Don't let your guard down when you click on a site. Or respond to a text. Or answer your phone.
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Imagine you open your computer and it’s frozen, with a few white words across a blue screen telling you it’s been infected. There’s a number to call for help from Microsoft and a warning not to shut the d...
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Syndicated columnist born in India, raised in Libya, Egypt, Thailand, New York. Transplanted to Iowa. Parent, widow, author, progressive, feminist, global citizen.
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