A 99-year-old woman died recently. Though I’d never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn’t famous in the new ...

Meeting with Iowa veterans and ensuring that, as a grateful state and nation, we support these heroes through the best healthcare and services that we have to offer is a top priority for me. Earlier this September, I had the pleasure of sitting down with fellow Iowan and new National Commander ...

The rhetoric over crime feels as if we’re strapped in a DeLorean and hurtling back to a dangerous future. We’ve landed back in the late 1980s-early 1990s, an era bookended by two pieces of legislation that led to mass incarceration and huge racial disparities in sentencing: the Anti-Drug ...

Iknow now the reason why I’ve been sick for so long. It’s given me more time, empathy and sincerity in my prayers for the healing of others. Since my “Power of Prayer” column of 9/1/25, where I asked people to contact me if they needed prayers, I have been gracefully blessed with a ...

It has been a week since young conservative activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down at a rally on the campus of Utah Valley University in front of his wife and hundreds of attendees. In the days since, a suspect — 22-year-old Tyler Robinson — allegedly confessed to his father that he ...

The Tesla board has offered to make Elon Musk the planet’s first trillionaire if he meets certain milestones in rocketing the automaker to new glory. Did Musk show true brilliance the first time around? Yes, he did. Tesla’s stock price rose 700% in 2020, making it more valuable than ...