BY JIM HIGHTOWER My father, W.F. “High” Hightower, was a populist. Only, he didn’t know it. Didn’t know the word, much less the history or anything about populism’s democratic ethos. My father was not philosophical, but he had a phrase that he used to express the gist of his political beliefs: “Everybody does better when […]

Photo: Richard Fricker, right, with Observer Founding Editor Frosty Troy at 2013's inaugural Frosty Fest in Oklahoma City. BY RAY PEARCEY More than once, over the...

BY NATHANIEL BATCHELDER Bombing and sending U.S. advisers is proposed in response to ISIS in Iraq. I'm telling Congress and the White House, "Not another...

BY JOE CONASON Minutes after President Barack Obama concluded his strong and sensible address explaining how he intends to destroy the terrorist organization the Islamic State, Republicans popped up on television like political snipers. He should have kept a “residual force” in Iraq, complained Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, and he is to blame for the […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It seems like yesterday. And yet, so much was different. My kids were little. I still felt young. We were all so naive. Oh, of course we knew the world was a dangerous place, in which Americans serving abroad could be murdered by terrorists, buildings could be bombed, planes could even explode. But […]