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Shame On You, Cornell
I have tried to find a calm way to write about what happened at Cornell, and I can't, so I'm not going to pretend. In October 2024, a 20-year-old student walked into the Chi Phi fraternity house in…
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Inherited Certainty
Yesterday, in the same hallway, I passed two kids from opposite ends of the political spectrum, each one fully costumed in conviction, and it stopped me in a way that surprised me, because I've…
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Six Cameras, Zero Warrants
There are six Flock Safety cameras in Tahlequah right now. One sits near the police department. Another was bolted onto a traffic pole at Muskogee Avenue and Willis Road this summer, solar powered,…
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Where Do We Belong?
In my recent article, “Where Do I Belong?” I found myself considering where my ancestral loyalty belongs. Do I look to my European ancestors, or to my Native American ancestors? The answer, I…
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Rural, Young, and Politically Homeless
There's a kind of political loneliness that doesn't get talked about much, and I feel it constantly in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It isn't the loneliness of being surrounded by people who disagree with…
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Healing Collective Trauma in a Fractured Society
Every week, I find myself returning to the same question: How do we come back together as a country? It is a question sparked by the news, conversations with friends, or sometimes a short video or…
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We've Forgotten How to Disagree
I've noticed something in almost every classroom discussion I've sat through. A teacher asks a question that's supposed to open things up, and within a minute, it's not really a discussion anymore.…
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"No More War"
I was fourteen, standing in a crowd in Tulsa at one of Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligar…
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The Future Feels Different Now
I have noticed something over the last few years that I cannot really stop thinking about: adults do not talk about adulthood the same way they used to. When I was younger, adulthood sounded…
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