BY JOE DORMAN Many Oklahomans are struggling to meet the needs of health insurance coverage. Insurance is a tricky and frustrating issue for most Americans....

BY JIM HIGHTOWER If it were under the big top, it would be a hilarious clown show – with pratfalls, wild posturing, tumbling, juggling and a cacophony of comic chaos. But alas, it’s under the Capitol dome, so it’s just the Republican congressional caucus – bumbling, stumbling, and crashing into each other in clownish acts […]

BY FROMA HARROP They worship at the high altar of football. They’re everywhere. I don’t give a fig about football, but the cult surrounds me. In the offseason, the devotees were stomping the floor over Tom Brady and a football’s air pressure. They demanded to know my opinion on the matter. That I had none […]

BY JOE CONASON With a self-proclaimed socialist running a credible campaign for president, perhaps the time has come to revive Karl Marx’s wittiest aphorism – although his pungent quip is relevant to Hillary Clinton, not Bernie Sanders. At the outset of The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, the young revolutionary said Hegel had once observed […]

BY SHARON MARTIN The Democratic debate was civil. The candidates discussed ideas and solutions. Why are we surprised? When did presidential elections become a media...