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Your Turn: Support gender-affirming care in our community

On behalf of the Bert Nash Center, I wish to express and affirm our support for gender-affirming care within our community. As a long-standing organization deeply committed to promoting mental health and well-being for all individuals, we believe it is essential to affirm and support the ...

Opinion: The Gaza protests are a mirror image of MAGA

In the past few days, student protesters occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University and then were forcibly removed by New York police. I knew that building well when I was an undergrad there in the 1970s. Columbia, like most colleges, tended left. The campus had become notorious in 1968 ...

Opinion: Facing uncomfortable partisan realities

Like many of you, I’ve seen volunteers for the United Kansas Party over the past few months collecting signatures to gain ballot access as a legitimate political party. I’m happy to see them out there, even though their efforts imply something, I think, quite different from their ...

Letter to the editor: Responding to protesters

To the editor: I write in response to your article about the “Palestine solidarity group” that gathered on KU’s campus and issued certain demands of the administration. I appreciated that your article listed all four of them. They included: (1) KU divest from organizations that profit ...

Opinion: J.D. Vance as vice president? He used to hate Trump

Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio has begun to remind me of an old saying about Chicago weather: If you don’t like it, just wait a few minutes. The same could be said — and some people do say it — about Vance’s big flip-flop from Trump critic to the reputed short list of possible ...

Opinion: Menthol cigarette ban was a bad idea

The Biden administration recently stopped a plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The excellent arguments for why they are dangerous were overcome by good arguments for why making them illegal didn’t make sense. In a world of optimal health, no one would be smoking menthol ...