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.
To the editor: Please preserve the current wetlands footprint and don’t diminish what is already threatened by the New Boston Crossing project. Please don’t seek profit from what looks to others as empty available land but is land that frames and supports the precious and unique wetlands. ...
The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy cliches and puffed-up pieties of polite (and impolite) American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question. Doubting the loftiness of protest invites elite scorn more than any other skepticism about a ...
If there’s one thing that keeps me up at night, it’s my worry that those of us who are dedicated to democracy and therefore committed to playing by the rules are underestimating the willingness of House Republicans to break the rules to elect Trump. It’s easy to forget that most current ...
This is not directly about the issues animating the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations at many colleges. Rather it’s about the air of privilege filling the sails of hypocrisy on which many ride. Start with the masks that protestors use to hide their identities. And from whom? In many ...
To the editor: The homeless situation has grown worse in Lawrence over the past 20 years. During this time much effort has been put into the study of homelessness by city leaders and members of the community. It is a complicated problem that requires help from many areas — city, state and ...
To the editor: As a faculty retiree from the English department at the University of Kansas, I read with great interest the article in in a recent Journal-World that “KU faculty votes to form union by a large margin,” more specifically by a vote of 850 to 132. This was not the first ...
