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My husband graduated with his bachelor’s degree this summer at the age of 56. We ordered a cake and celebrated with friends and family. He had earned his associate’s degree in accounting literally decades ago and had plans to continue his education, but life detoured him, as it likes to ...
It’s summertime, and the living is uneasy, particularly in Washington newsrooms and bureaus. At this time of year, historically, serious news can be harder to find than the newspeople available to cover it.
The result is what journalists call “the silly season,” when you can never guess ...
Todd Blanche was Donald Trump’s personal attorney, so it was natural that when he was elevated to attorney general, a journalist asked whether he would “pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House?”
The correct answer to such a question is ...
There’s an old saying: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. A similar idea underscores the debate over wealth taxes in California and elsewhere: Those who can, build companies. Those who can’t, devise ways for the government to take shares in what others have built.
This new ...
Should Kansans demand the petition initiative? Recent election results point to a resounding “yes.”
Currently, the only way to change the Kansas constitution is for the Kansas Legislature to initiate. This year, they asked voters to abandon merit selection and choose Kansas Supreme ...
Remember “affordability” mania?
The time was 2025. A young, charismatic democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor named Zohran Mamdani became a viral sensation. His secret? “Affordability.”
Ask him about almost anything and he’d turn the conversation to affordability. ...