Opinion

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Opinion: Who believes Iran doesn’t want a nuclear bomb?

Washington — “A nuclear Iran isn’t just a threat, it’s the threat,” Mark Dubowitz of The Foundation for Defense of Democracies warned in the new podcast, “The Iran Breakdown.” Ahead of arms talks Saturday in Oman, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed Wednesday that his ...

Opinion: ‘Improper ideology’ at the Smithsonian

President Trump has signed an executive order that directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums, educational and research centers, and the National Zoo. My immediate reaction? Surely, you jest, sir. There may not ...

Opinion: Keeping the tax cuts and rebooting the tax code

Republicans claim they are slashing government, but they’re about to explode the budget deficit to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts — which would balloon interest payments on the national debt, already one of the largest expenses in the federal budget. That’s no way to slash ...

Opinion: There are no innocent bystanders now

I went down to the recent demonstration at the Washington Monument, surrounded by a multitude with signs, chants and oh so many causes under the bleak spring sky. In this setting I had a sudden epiphany: Protests are not only to send a message to the ruler golfing in Florida. No, the point ...

Letter to the editor: Development nonsense

To the editor: To understand why our approach to economic development makes no sense, look no further than the new Dillons in The Crossing at KU. This project is supported by Tax Increment Financing, a subsidy meant to encourage redevelopment of blighted properties like old factories and ...

Opinion: Trump relies on phony ‘emergency’ to tax us

“No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of [the Constitution’s] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.” — Ex Parte Milligan, Supreme Court of the United States, 1866. President ...