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Democracy, from scratch (opens the original)
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Every December, a dear friend of mine delivers fresh loaves of bread to Des Moines from 564 miles away, just in time for Christmas. I’m fortunate to be on his route.The bread justifies the mileage, I can attest.It’s baked in a stone hearth oven at Zingerman’s Bakehouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which turns out a long roster of breads from the same humble foundation: flour, water, salt and natural sour starters. That wholesome aesthetic seems to pay off with vibrant flavor and rich texture.Turns ou
Canada has already won, thanks to the masked weirdos of Angine de Poitrine (opens the original)
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Taylor Swift’s wedding ceremony in July with Travis Kelce inside Madison Square Garden — “the world’s most famous arena” — reaffirmed her reign as today’s top music star. Dolly Parton’s death in August reminded all of us she ranked as probably the most universally beloved music icon — a status already evident in polling months earlier.But the biggest and unlikeliest music success story of 2026 belongs to a d
Our Independent Streak Shows in Our Politics (opens the original)
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I wrote how the current political campaign “seethes with the anger and frustration of voters who seem to be sick of whatever they consider to be the corrupt, broken ‘establishment.’”No, not this summer. But the sentiment still feels relevant as we lurch toward a bitter 2026 midterm election with $11.6 billion in political ads flooding into every digital nook and cranny. Those words were published a decade ago as the first line of my front-page column in the Des Moines Register on Monday, Feb. 1,
Welcome to 'data center summer' and the bipartisan backyard backlash (opens the original)
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Welcome to “data center summer.”We’ve spent the last generation with the small rectangles of mobile phones glued to our sweaty palms. Their increasing sophistication and the onset of artificial intelligence have led to the rise of vast monoliths — acres of drab industrial buildings full of computer chips and wiring in more of our backyards. All of this digital infrastructure humming away inside nondescript concrete boxes is needed to fuel the flow of continuous information to our smartphones and
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