Donald Kaul wrote columns for 50 years, beginning with a long stint at the Des Moines Register that made him a household name (in a good way) throughout Iowa. OtherWords distributed his columns from 2001 through July 2012, when he had a heart attack and declared that he needed either a temporary or permanent break. Kaul, who was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary in 1987 and 1999, lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You can read more about his career in this column.
Sarah, tell us what to do about the BP oil disaster.
A guidance counselor cast me rudderless on the uncharted waters of higher education, where I drifted into journalism.
It’s the other guy’s government benefits that bother them.
Compared to Reagan he was a giant.
There’s a systemic flaw in the way the Church does things, involving hundreds of priests and thousands of victims of abuse, mainly children.
There are few things more powerful than a bad idea that gets made into legislation.
Do we really need a Republican Party?
The Compton Cookout was so egregious that the situation demanded a dramatic response.
Obama should slim down his agenda to two things: health care and jobs.
Dethroning GM cost the Japanese automaker its soul.
I don’t see why I’m supposed to feel better because you apologize for getting caught.
Everyone wants a solution to our problems, but no one wants to pay a price.
At first glance it’s easy to dismiss the Tea Partiers as bumpkins with the political acuity of a box of rocks.
They’d keep laughing all the way to the bank, except they are the bank.
Our democracy has been in decline for some time but this decision closes the books on it.
The only sound worse than a Democrat whining about a loss is a Republican crowing about victory.
There are three subjects we can’t discuss rationally: Israel, Cuba, and race.
I blamed Joe Lieberman, but that’s just me.
Football uses its combatants like Kleenex, then discards them with hardly a thought.