Transgender and nonbinary Iowans will see their legal protections weakened this week when a law removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act goes into effect.

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Explosions boomed Monday night in Qatar, home to a major U.S. air base, shortly after its airspace was closed due to Iranian ...

Last week, I wrote about the 50th anniversary Celebrations of the local Optimist Club and, in the late summer, the Kiwanis ...

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The Indian economy remains one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with a large pool of young workers. Major ...

For the past five years, my reporting has lived in our “Inspired Life” section. Recently, we relaunched the section to match the name of our newsletter The Optimist. I now write the Sunday ...

As a staunch techno-optimist, I hold strong to what the futurist Buckminster Fuller said nearly a century ago: ... But both numbers still represent a massive economic boom. Of course, the valid ...

Here, then, is the optimist’s dilemma in microcosm: the world is not as Bill Gates wishes it to be or believed it once was or would like to imagine. History does not move progressively forward ...