This Week’s Independent Thinker

Alaa Murabit is founder of Voice of Libyan Women, focused on using words, not guns, to achieve diplomacy, cooperation, peace and security. Murabit is convinced,...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Prophet is no longer subject to copyright law. The classic book entered the realm of public domain last month, which means anyone can...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Germans are following the Dutch and the Danes, and that would be a good line to get in. These countries are building bikebahns connecting...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Our editorial cartoonist, Wolf Grulkey, owns a food truck in Alma, Ark., called the Hungry Wolf. A couple of weeks ago he loaded his...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Our Parks commission has meetings, called workshops but they qualify as meetings because the commissioners are meeting as we see it. They walk around...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

We don’t have that many killer whales in the Ozarks, none would be the correct number, but women of the Ozarks share a phenomenon...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Good works have an unspoken effect on those who do the giving as much as on those who receive. Sometimes it’s outside our comfort...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

He didn’t lie to get out of the draft. He got in the face of the draft, calling war immoral and going to jail...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Alex Ruiz is a server at Cinco de Mayo Mexican Grill in Douglasville, Georgia. Recently a man walked in, ordered his food and sat down...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers March 13, 2019

One of the joys of living is looking in a dog’s eyes. The cross-country team at St. Joseph High School in an ever-lovely California community...