6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (587+ words) In this image provided by NASA, The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on Monday as they flew around the Moon. April 7: Put it down as the most schizophrenic day in United States history. While the nation…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (532+ words) We live in a hyphenated reality bound by contradictions, paradoxes, hypocrisy and the little conveniences with which we fill the days. After Paul Fanlund offered me the job as opinion editor for The Capital Times, I shared the news with…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (702+ words) Scene: the Midwest in midcentury. The Madison, Wisconsin, neighborhood lived through the 1930s and 1940s, depression, wartime and polio. President Franklin Roosevelt's radio fireside chats built morale. My father's mother, Marie, a widowed nurse with four children, never missed Eleanor Roosevelt's column,…...