Editorials

Working moms have made history at the U.S. Open tennis tournament when nine days in, three  qualified for its quarterfinals. It’s the first time in history that three mothers have gone that far at the…

President Trump reversed course Friday and announced that his administration would not eliminate funding for Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that has been keeping troops informed since the Civil War. The president’s retreat came…

The ghost of Kris Kobach haunts the office of his successor. Next year, Kansas lawmakers must perform an exorcism. On Wednesday, Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s office turned down a request from state Sen.…

We applaud the state for finally taking a brave step forward for public safety. The names and locations of COVID-19 clusters will begin to be publicly released. While counties previously had the ability to release…

Germany confirmed Wednesday what the world already assumed: Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who lies in serious condition in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned — specifically, with the nerve agent Novichok. Russia claims it had no…

The recent trash talk that the number of Americans who have died from COVID-19 is greatly exaggerated and that the virus is merely a political ploy, adds insult to injury to the hundreds of thousands…

We have reached a point of great danger for our nation that threatens the expansion of violence and the engulfment of people of goodwill who do not now and have never wanted anything but the…

America basically has turned into an outrage machine, which makes it odd to say that there is one topic that is not producing enough outrage in American discourse. It is Facebook. The enormously profitable company…

Add the University of Missouri in Columbia to the list of colleges making dangerous decisions during the COVID-19 crisis. On Friday, Boone County-Columbia officials said that 44.6% of the people tested from Aug. 21 to…

Hello there, Mike Pompeo. It’s time for us to talk again, because once again it seems like you can’t keep your private political ambitions separate from your public duties as Secretary of State. We talked…