On Thanksgiving eve, Observer editor Arnold Hamilton, left, and longtime Observer contributor Richard Fricker discuss a cornucopia of Oklahoma political stories, including Congressman Bridenstine's...

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER Well, here we are headed into the holidays, all a-twitter and full of expectation. Oklahomans need not fret over meals, even...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER In December 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came tantalizingly close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture. A coalition of grass-roots farmers, consumers and scrappy public interest organizations [like the Agribusiness Accountability Project that Susan DeMarco and I then […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’m not a big one on celebrities and award shows, but my law firm represents the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is how I found myself in the audience last week as Angelina Jolie received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. I did not expect to be deeply moved. I […]

BY FROMA HARROP During the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, it’s been hard to defend the law, much less to call it “great.” But great it is – for the American economy and for the American people, rich ones included. The program has already succeeded in one of its key backbreaking missions: to […]