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.
In a display of Stockholm Syndrome, the White House Correspondents’ Association invited Donald Trump to be the keynote speaker at their annual festival of self-appreciation. Because he is who he is, he did not take the opportunity to do the kind of gentle press ribbing that past presidents ...
There are many ways to measure the health of a country. One way is growth of gross domestic product. Another is economic productivity. But there’s a less conventional measure worth watching: Do the world’s most talented and ambitious people want to immigrate here? Throughout most of ...
It wasn’t long ago that policymakers worried the internet would split the country into digital “haves” and “have-nots,” leaving millions stranded without access to modern education, healthcare and economic opportunity. So federal dollars poured into the states to help build ...
To the editor: The proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution to change how Supreme Court justices are selected must be rejected on Aug. 4. Our government is based on a system of checks and balances, dividing power among the legislative, executive and judicial branches so no single branch ...
To the editor: To the owners of the LJWorld, Ogden Newspapers of Kansas, from some country road or another in West Virginia, please know that two seminal events in our town’s history happened fifty six years ago this month. The killings of Rick “Tiger” Dowdell and Harry “Nick” Rice ...
To the editor: A recent exchange over the proposed solar farm accused a supporter of the farm of, essentially, being a city person who doesn’t understand farming and doesn’t love the land. As it happens, the person described is an organic farmer living and working on a small organic farm ...