Opinion

The Washington Post, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, will allow its syndicated columns to appear only in print. The columns will still be available as part of our e-edition newspaper online, but they will not be available as separate pieces on our website, ljworld.com. These columnists include George Will, David Ignatius, Michael Gerson and others. This does not affect other columnists like Leonard Pitts, Mona Charen, Connie Schultz and Mark Shields, who are not affiliated with the Washington Post.

Letter to the editor: Last chance to save democracy

To the editor: Folks, here’s where we stand. We have only one last chance to save our democracy, and that will be in the upcoming midterm elections. And they will be so crucial to our freedom that, temporarily, the old party names of Republicans and Democrats must fade into the background ...

Letter to the editor: Trump trying to hide his guilt

To the editor: An illegal military invasion of Venezuela will not make us rally around the flag and ignore the new revelations that Trump provided Jeffrey Epstein a massage girl pipeline from Mara Lago for years. That Trump was Epstein’s most frequent flier. The attack will not hide the ...

Opinion: Amid extremism, America is flailing

Five years to the week since the extremism-fueled, extremist-led Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and with plentiful documentation of the metastasizing threat from extremism from both Right and Left, Farah Pandith could be forgiven for feeling that her life’s work combating hate is ...

Letter to the editor: False headline

To the editor: The headline “Kansan returns to the Catholic Church as the state’s first woman priest” is intentionally misleading and reflects a growing problem in contemporary journalism: framing ideological advocacy as factual reporting. The article itself admits — several ...

Letter to the editor: Trump-Allen Fieldhouse?

To the editor: After reading (“A look at anti-DEI legislation that could take off in Kansas”) about our state-funded universities trying to figure out how to protect our children from the cruelties posed by diversity, equity and inclusion, allow me to propose a simple alternative. The ...

Letter to the editor: Trump’s enablers

To the editor: Since Trump returned to office in January 2025, wrote columnist Michelle Goldberg in the New York Times on Dec. 26, 2025, “it’s been a parade of nightmares — armed men in balaclavas on the streets, migrants sent to a torture prison in El Salvador, corruption on a scale ...