Tag: Oklahoma
Texas fires: With over 1 million acres of grassland burned, cattle...
Karen Hickman, Oklahoma State University
Strong winds spread the largest wildfire in Texas history across more than 1 million...
Oklahoma OKs the nation’s first religious charter school – but litigation...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can...
50 years after landmark death penalty case, Supreme Court’s ruling continues...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The state of Oklahoma put James Coddington to death on Aug. 25, 2022, for the...
Tornadoes, climate change and why Dixie is the new Tornado Alley
Ernest Agee, Purdue University
Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities...
Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
Dwanna L. McKay, Colorado College
Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that much of the eastern part of the state...
From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre
Gregory B. Fairchild, University of Virginia
My family sat down to watch the first episode of HBO’s “Watchmen” last October. Stephen Williams, the director, included...
The misguided attacks on ‘This Land Is Your Land’
Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire
In recent years, Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has become a rallying cry for immigrants. And in...
What Oklahoma’s opioid settlement means for other states, cities and counties...
Andrew Pollis, Case Western Reserve University
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter recently announced that the state had reached a US$270 million settlement with Purdue Pharma,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
