by Michael Chancellor | Jan 7, 2026 | Opinion
How can we address the high rates of sexual violence against women (and some men) in the United States? Like the painter who realizes too late that he has painted himself into a corner, I have come to realize this epidemic has been going on for a very long time....
by Michael Chancellor | Dec 10, 2025 | Opinion
Content Warning: The following contains multiple mentions of sexual assault. Justice Horn, a successful wrestler at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, recently wrote about his experience of being sexually assaulted. Horn, an openly gay man from the...
by Michael Chancellor | Nov 24, 2025 | Opinion
I cannot understand why this administration and so many Republican politicians have declared war on transgender people in our midst. There are countless problems with this aggressive campaign, but one especially disturbing example surfaced recently when...
by Michael Chancellor | Nov 5, 2025 | Opinion
Every veteran I saw as a therapist was a tribute to my dad, who quietly served as a Marine during some of the fiercest fighting in the South Pacific in World War II. I lost count of how many veterans came through my practice, but each was a hero whose service they...
by Michael Chancellor | Oct 9, 2025 | Opinion
In 2022, Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA, declared, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.” I wasn’t aware of this quote until after Kirk’s assassination. The...
