I worked as an internal-medicine physician for 31 years. Then, about two years ago, my supervisor called me into her office and fired me. I was forgetting instructions and struggling with technologies I had always…

Despite widespread pushback, the Trump administration and the National Park Service removed exhibits on slavery from the President’s House, a recreation of the executive residence that once housed George Washington and John Adams. The exhibits…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a memorandum that authorizes its agents to enter private residences forcibly without a judicial warrant.  James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, recently defended…

The arrest and detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the Minnesota 5-year-old in a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack, has drawn the attention — and the ire — of the nation. As an immigration…

In the epilogue of “Kansas Matters: 21st-century Writers on the Sunflower State,” which I co-edited with Thomas Fox Averill, I wrote that Kansas is “a place wild with stories, overrun with strange and unexpected creatures,…

Donald Trump has completed the first year of his second term. Let’s look back at some of the things that he and his administration have done in the last year. 1.  The administration intimidated universities,…

Republican elected officials are choosing their words carefully, but many are starting to realize the federal government’s paramilitary crackdown on Minnesota has put them in political peril. Even President Donald Trump himself is showing belated…

Here’s the best news of the day, and about immigration believe it or not: On Wednesday a judge granted asylum to Guan Heng, the Chinese man who risked his life to expose the Communist Party’s…

Oh, to have the composure of Rep. Ilhan Omar.  While addressing a town hall — remember those, Republicans? — the Minnesota Democrat was approached by a man who sprayed her with “a foul-smelling liquid” from…

Given the brutish activity of masked federal, armed immigration agents in many of our cities — their disregard for the rule of law, process, and human dignity — and given also that I never thought…