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There are good reasons why our leaders don’t want to treat Epic Charter Schools like Rome did Carthage.

It is curious, given their professed dedication to science and empiricism, how often progressive policy analysts offer self-evidently weak empirical arguments to justify their positions.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt doesn’t intend, either this session or in a second term, to surrender his quest for fundamental policy reform.

Isn’t it time we stop seeing schools as political castles to be fortified and start looking at education as a mission for all of civil society?

Like here, in states throughout the nation, desperation has inspired creative measures to keep schools open.

There are many issues in which both contending sides on a bill offer good arguments from the perspective of a legislator’s political principles and the hard knowledge necessary to determine policy consequences of either alternative.

The differences in how this version of the pandemic presents itself provide fodder for thinking about what we have learned so far about responding to pandemics.

The supply side of the Oklahoma marijuana equation is causing serious problems that must be addressed.

Opening our political selves to the idea of grace will swiftly turn down the temperature of our political skirmishes and facilitate productive relationships and compromise.

If we want to preserve the intellectual freedom that is an indispensable foundation of universities that are properly focused on the search for and transmission of truth, we must vigorously protect the rights of faculty to speak out on matters of public concern.