by Keri Ladner | Jun 6, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
On a recent road trip with my rescue dog, Schuyler, I stopped for the night in Oklahoma City. My car needed charging, I needed a break from driving and I wanted to visit a site that had haunted me for most of my life. The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal...
by Keri Ladner | May 29, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Some of the starkest images from the Capitol Riot of January 6, 2021, were of evangelical Christians and racist skinheads working side-by-side to topple American democracy. The cross and the Confederate flag are two symbols that should never occupy the same place....
by Keri Ladner | May 17, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
When Donald Trump declared he would “drain the swamp” by ending political corruption and dismantling the shadow government pulling the strings in Washington, he was drawing on two significant streams of American political thought. The first is a deep distrust the...
by Keri Ladner | May 8, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Most people have never heard of Identity theology. But they have heard of the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, the 1992 Ruby Ridge siege, the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, Cliven and Ammon Bundy’s 2014 and 2016 standoffs against the US federal government, the 2015...
by Keri Ladner | Apr 30, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
On July 22, 2011, a car bomb exploded in the government quarter of Oslo, Norway, killing eight people. The man who planted the bomb then took a ferry to the island of Utoya, where a youth camp was being held. He opened fire and killed 69 more, mostly children, in the...
