David Manney

We often speak of COVID-19 in the past tense. The masks have come off, the Plexiglas dividers are gone, and the nightly case trackers have vanished from our screens. But the virus, less in its biological form than its…

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”— John F. Kennedy When President Trump signed the executive order to cease federal funding…

In a recent appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show, Bill Gates confidently claimed that artificial intelligence will replace doctors and teachers within the next decade. “Humans won’t be needed for most things,” he…

By any honest reckoning, the American Midwest has long stood as the republic’s last great firewall of common sense -- where decency is currency and a handshake still means something. But lately, the region’s governors have sounded less like…