I have a couple of additions to the list of things I’m thankful for this year. First, I’m thankful, make that grateful, to the people across this state and country who organized the hundreds of dem...

Liz Renner was laid off under Department of Government Efficiency action, reinstated, and then offered and accepted a deferred resignation.

Under King Don, Uncle Sam wants you to execute members of Congress, undermine public health, and sell out allies to flattering dictators. Meanwhile, Lifer Sam wants you to serve your community by serving his. In his latest essay from the South Dakota Penitentiary, Samuel Lint, Inmate #16334, urges civic-minded South Dakotans to come work at the Pen and put Governor Rhoden's…

Family members of Ukrainian children deported from Kherson by Russia made a rare public appeal for their return on Monday in Paris. Since the start of its full-scale invasion, Moscow has deported Ukra...

King Don wages his trade war on the pretext that tariffs will boost American manufacturing. But as usual, the Wharton wimp gets economics wrong. Tariffs have pushed American combiner Claas to shift production away from Omaha to Germany: Anticipating the tariffs that would come, Claas last spring tried to get in front of the situation in North America by pushing its Omaha plant to produce extra of the Lexion combines, even pushing its Nebraska workforce into overtime to do it.

No matter how bad he is for the ag industry, King Don still manages to delude some farmers: Lake Preston farmer Paul Casper said the price increase has pushed him “closer to break-even on beans,” while Trump’s tariffs have raised the price of farm inputs such as fertilizers. Casper said Brazil has emerged as a rival to U.S. soybean farmers after years of infrastructure investment backed by China, which makes the future feel less certain.

Balaton-based Tru Shrimp—which got an award from the Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce for renaming itself Iterro, which is supposed to be a clever Latin portmanteau word hinting "renew the earth" but serves mostly to complicate Google searches for the company's history of overpromising and underdelivering—told Governor Dennis Daugaard and the world back in 2019 that they would take all the…

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On Sunday I discussed the inconsistency of Secretary of State Monae Johnson's proposal to allow candidates to skip petitions and pay filing fees to get on the ballot while denying ballot question committees the same favor for their initiatives and referenda. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. But are filing fees good for anybody, and for democracy?

My high school physics teacher once admonished me not to get a graduate degree in education.Get a real degree, he said. I'm not sure the master's degree I completed or the doctorate I ABD'd at DSU in information systems were any more "real" than education Amidst the dissolution of the Department of Education, the Trump Administration has decided to stop considering the advanced degrees required of nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, audiologists, architects, accountant, educators, and social workers…

ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...

Haters gonna hate, Nazis gonna Nazi… Darn—the shrug-worthy removal of hate-spreading Nazi Charlie Kirk from the marketplace of bad ideas (remember: no big deal, "things happen") has only made room for more hate-spreading Nazis to compete for his market: Conservative media figures like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro have been sniping at each other online, flinging accusations of dark conspiracies and anti-semitism, some of which even appear to be true.

Not that I want to make a habit of this, but… Nothing instills fear and trembling among allies and enemies alike better than the President of the United States of America winging foreign policy. Co…

Donald Trump makes clear his subservience to Vladimir Putin with his 28-point plan for Ukraine's surrender to invader Russia. Ukrainian-born independent journalist Olga Nesterova argues that the plan, to which Trump is demanding Volodymyr Zelenskyy's capitulation by Thursday, violates the United Nations Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the Rome Statute, and international human rights law…

Some of the hardest-working people I have met were lawbreakers. Their crime? They were in the United States without the proper documentation. They had crossed the southern border in search of work, m...

The petition process is near and dear to my heart. Naturally, I notice among Secretary of State Monae Johnson's 17 proposals for election law changes this coming Session her request to allow candidates to skip petitioning and buy their way onto the ballot: 9. An Act to allow a candidate to qualify to have the candidate’s name on the ballot…

Bob Mercer reviews 35 cases in which Pandemic Unemployment Assistance recipients appealed the Department of Labor and Regulation's decision to take back payments the state had already approved, plus two appeals in which applicants were denied PUA benefits. Mercer finds that the state won only 18 of those 37 cases and spent nearly $110K on private lawyers to win back $146K, a net savings for the state of $36K, or 8% of the $440K at stake in these cases.

Among the latest queasy applications of artificial intelligence, families of missing people are using AI to generate digital simulations of their absent loved ones: Since artificial intelligence development has become available to the masses, interesting, funny, and sometimes odd videos have been created, but AI is also being used for good: raising awareness for those who are missing and murdered.