Editorials

Now begins a month-long blitz of television ads, radio spots, postcards and digital posts designed to sway your vote, and many of those ads will be funded by the Kansas Chamber PAC. According to the…

In Congress, both parties finally agree that the United States has fallen too far behind on providing high-speed internet and that action is necessary to connect millions of Americans. But in typical Washington fashion, how…

Fox News talking head Tucker Carlson this week accused Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., of hating America because she said she’s open to debate about removing iconography of the Founders. Duckworth lost both legs in military…

Christopher Columbus did not set out to prove that the world was round (educated people had proven the flat-Earthers wrong centuries earlier). He was not the first European to cross the Atlantic (that title goes…

Long the lovechild of progressives, Sweden has hit the skids in regards to its laissez-faire response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And instead of proving prescient, the country’s independent streak against strict measures is costing thousands…

The Trump administration has used the novel coronavirus as license to indiscriminately kill off and impede every sort of immigration — legal and illegal, permanent and temporary, work- and family-based. On Monday, it took aim…

Well, that didn’t take long. Only days after surprising the nation by striking down a strict anti-abortion law in Louisiana, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts reminded Americans once again that it is…

American sports are changing, and the Kansas City Chiefs are on the clock. Last week, the NFL’s Washington Redskins announced plans to reconsider the team’s nickname, a decision that will almost certainly lead to a…

Our public spaces have been put under extreme pressure in the last few months. Since the pandemic lockdown, people have headed for open spaces to revive their mental and physical health. More recently, public spaces…

Oklahoma just proved that when left up to rank-and-file citizens, Medicaid expansion is popular. At their June 30 primary election, Oklahomans approved a constitutional amendment to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The vote…