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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 ...
Five years ago Tuesday was the most shameful day in American history.
We must not allow Trump to persuade America that it did not happen or that he was innocent, or let him deflect the nation’s attention from the fifth anniversary of what occurred that day.
Less than three weeks ago, Jack ...
Nick Fuentes is often described as dangerous not because he is merely provocative but because his rhetoric and worldview actively undermine the moral foundations of a pluralistic democracy and the credibility of any political movement that tolerates him. His record of racist, antisemitic and ...
Scene: the Midwest in midcentury.
The Madison, Wisconsin, neighborhood lived through the 1930s and 1940s, depression, wartime and polio. President Franklin Roosevelt’s radio fireside chats built morale.
My father’s mother, Marie, a widowed nurse with four children, never missed ...