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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To the editor: I am deeply concerned that Kansas legislators are considering passing legislation that mandates how teachers in our colleges and universities must approach race and other topics. Slavery and race were important topics in the American history courses that I taught at KU for 40 ...