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Crisis management lessons from monkeys

Malice toward none is hard

We're hobbled by uncertainty

Knowing when to take a beat

Maybe everybody should feel a draft

Rural America needs our help

So you want a break from the news?

How Facebook is not like football

Democracy without guardrails

Is resignation actually great?

A supply shortage politicians can quickly solve

Banning lies, tolerating poppycock

The peril of ignoring both truth and consequences

Human infrastructure is a chance to re-create

What came after 9/11: fight or flight

To beat stress, be like a begonia

A moral response to the workforce crisis

Resisting a toxic view of freedom

Getting around to facing our greatest challenge

A virus that's even harder to beat

Unchecked growth, untended decline: population dynamics at a crossroads

The political peril of fire and flood

All's not fair in politics, in fact

Travel is about more than seeing things

Don't be ashamed of your patriotism

Fighting reality: Is there a wolf on our horizon?

America's healing steps

Recognizing the truth won't hurt us

Making cement in South Dakota, and other tales from the annals of Big Government

We need to help people who don't know what's good for them

To turn back violence, focus on character

Three trite truisms that explain Elise Stefanik

Manipulating the political marketplace

Asking Americans to be better neighbors

Government steps in as the invisible hand fails

On guns and race, laying aside what might have been to go forward from here

Paying the IRS, trusting government to do what's right with my tax dollars

Adapt to thrive (you, me and the USA)

You can't always get what you want

A little chaos may be a good thing

Calling balls and strikes on Joe Biden

Truth about character, politics and culture, emerging from hometown reporting away from the center of things.

From failure we grow -- if we work at it

Truth is worth more than a warm hat

No longer forever cool, but still thinking