This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Paul Beatty wrote a book. Who hasn’t? But Beatty’s book, The Sellout, set judges of the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s loftiest literary accolade, into...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
“You’re dead. Watch your back. We will burn you down. You should be put in front of a firing squad as a traitor.” This...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Banks are in business to make money. They loan it, compound it, hold it hostage, exchange it, invest it and sometimes buy uniforms for...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Remember when ketchup was declared a vegetable in order to provide flexibility and cost effectiveness in school lunch programs? 1981.
The public charter Village School...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
We are accustomed to hearing about anonymous gifts to already thriving entities – St. Jude’s Hospital, Antioch College, the Tea Party. Once in awhile,...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
William Blair Anderson is Police Chief of St. Cloud, Minn., a town where eight people were injured last Saturday in a knife attack that...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
When consideration of a planned oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois came up in 2016, President Obama said he wasn’t familiar with the...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Golly, a photographer who has talent, self-confidence, experience, and benevolence. And instead of starving, she’s thriving. How does that work?
Carol M. Highsmith donated more...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota has had it up to here with oil companies and their “just one more pipeline” attitude....
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Pictures of strangled dolphins, whales and tuna have been printed worldwide recently. Big fish with so much plastic in and around them, their organs...