Opinion

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Opinion: How corrupt is this administration?

This is the Trump era, which means if you blink, you will miss another shattering example of unabashed corruption. I don’t usually write about the same topic twice in a row, but the latest revelations of Trump’s wanton, shameless profiteering from the White House cannot go unremarked. The ...

Opinion: Time to drop the tariffs, Mr. President

Donald Trump is now an unpopular president. Some of this dissatisfaction is due to the war in Iran. Some of it springs from the unanticipated speed, chaos and perceived brutality of several of his administration’s actions over the past year and a half. But a significant part of his political ...

Opinion: Power leads to shortsightedness

Once in power, party members often develop an affliction called myopic fog. The condition presents as a compulsion to rewrite institutional rules. Common symptoms include electoral law manipulation, fixation on short-term advantage, and habitual overreaching. Consider election ...

Letter to the editor: KCK growing faster than Lawrence, too

To the editor: I found Chad Lawhorn's article about Lawrence population loss quite interesting, but he neglected to include Kansas City, Kansas, in his list of other Kansas cities that have not experienced such losses. With a population currently estimated at 156,977, KCK is the state's ...

Opinion: Founders would have impeached Trump

In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the year before. The pardon power proved to be a sticking point for some delegates. George Mason, the primary author of Virginia’s own constitution, was among those ...