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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner wrote those words in 1951. Yet, they could be a commentary on the political scene 75 years later. No issue matters more to President Donald Trump than the results of the 2020 election. ...
This August marks the twentieth anniversary of my family’s arrival in Kansas, after I was hired to teach at Friends University in Wichita. After two decades here, what have I learned? That’s a complicated question and answering it fully would take a book (which I’m working on). But one ...
You couldn’t find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. “Saturday Night Live” couldn’t have made her up. Hong lost ...
I often get asked for my advice on how to vote. I’m the first to concede these requests come from a very niche slice of the electorate — that tiny remnant of people who know who I am, value my opinion and share my exasperation with both parties. I am going to answer the question. But first ...
“Don’t it always seem to go,” Joni Mitchell wrote decades ago, “that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” Last week’s Senate passage of legislation authorizing new sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s Russia was much-ballyhooed, but much ado about little: The most ...
To the editor: The article "A new Kansas-grown wheat could make its way to your pasta," which originated in the Kansas News Service, and was printed in the July 26, 2026, Journal World, was remiss, in my opinion, in lacking relevant information. It was stated that Russian immigrants brought ...
