Frozen Feud on the Prairie: How a Dakota Football Game Explains the World’s Cold Wars
South Dakota vs. North Dakota: A Cold-War Rehearsal on the Frozen Prairie By Diego “Frostbite” Valdez, Senior Cynic-at-Large From the vantage of Ulaanbaatar—or, frankly, anywhere with functioning central heating—watching South Dakota and North Dakota square off feels like witnessing two identical twins argue over whose freckles are more symmetrical. Yet, in the grand theatre of…