This Week’s Independent Thinker

When you’re hot, you’re hot. More than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the sun. It’s 93 million miles away and more than 4 billion years...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Oh those women over 40, they are a force to contend with any way you look at it – seems they ingest big gulps...

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...