Kansas history speaks: Government when it worked (3)
(Long before distress and malice became a Republican manifesto, Kansas had a most viable and vibrant government, led by people who helped the state...
Kansas history speaks: Government when it worked (2)
(Long before distress and malice became a Republican manifesto, Kansas had a most viable and vibrant government, led by people who helped the state...
Kansas history speaks: Government when it worked
(Long before distress and malice became a Republican manifesto, Kansas had a most viable and vibrant government, led by people who helped the state...
Trump’s tribe, and that mythical “common” ground
The Republican national convention, seething with rage and contempt (“Make America Hate Again,” as The New York Times put it) provides a grand lesson...
Mid-year review: How things were, and are
When tragedy strikes ‒ and it has been striking a lot lately ‒ we often look around for something to hold on to, something...
The measure of a place called home
The fiction of this country ‒ literal and otherwise ‒ is filled with people, usually young, who migrate to New York or some other...
IRS flap sidesteps a matter of secrecy
Several Republicans, including Jerry Moran, have dragged out that toothless whistle about closing the Internal Revenue Service, as though such an act would be...
A July 4 reminder: Civil rights trump the worship of property
The presidential race continues, with each side churning this way and that in hopes that people will begin to take the candidates seriously. There...
All those candidates, and one simple question
One of the bolder queries in campaign politics lies in a simple question: “Are you better off now..?
Adjusted for the current Kansas election cycle,...
Is the law only to be ignored?
During Watergate we were reminded, as though we needed to be, that no one is above the law. Not even the president.
Richard Nixon’s crimes...