Editorials

In the months that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been threatening America’s health with his pseudo-science nonsense, the nation could at least hope that he was freelancing. President Donald Trump,…

Somewhere mingled in the foam and debris of the Caribbean Sea are the remains of at least 17 people who were killed this month by U.S. military forces on the orders of President Trump. They…

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg dropped a bombshell on Democrats last week, one lost in the chaotic news cycle following Charlie Kirk’s assassination. He was responding to a passage in former Vice President Kamala…

Navigating the streets in downtown Kansas City is more difficult than ever these days. Broadway Boulevard’s pavement is torn up for resurfacing from Southwest Boulevard to Seventh Street. Road closures interrupt traffic all around the…

We don’t usually concern ourselves with the attire of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. The man’s, shall we say, colorful sartorial choices are his business (and his fiancée’s). But we feel compelled to…

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said on the right-wing political commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast Wednesday. He was talking, of…

Here is something all Americans can agree on, whatever their feelings on immigration enforcement: United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not be harassing, let alone detaining, citizens of the United States. Nor should that…

Voter registration booths manned by nonprofits are a staple of naturalization ceremonies in this country. It gives many freshly minted Americans a convenient opportunity to file the necessary paperwork to exercise their rights at the…

The most dangerous word in America right now just might be “they.”  See if this tragic pattern sounds familiar. Something awful happens. Everyone immediately jumps to blame “them” for causing it. Half the country picks…

Did we miss Congress’s authorization to use military force against Venezuelan drug-runners? On Monday, President Donald Trump announced a second strike this month against a vessel he said was carrying illegal drugs. An accompanying video…