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.
Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phrase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of broadcast news. This makes it ...
Thanksgiving invites us to pause and consider the gifts we often overlook. This year, at a moment of rising political unease and ideological confusion, I am especially grateful for one extraordinary inheritance: a nation and its creed brought into being by the Declaration of Independence and ...
To the editor: I refer to our Kansas GOP congressional delegation as Trump’s “handmaids,” because, like the unfortunate characters in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” they have either reluctantly or eagerly let themselves be impregnated with Trump’s lawless, ...
To the editor: Sister Janet Kennedy was my wife’s first cousin. In the 1980s, she was the nursing home ombudsman for the State of Kansas. During that time, she had breakfast with Dr. Karl Menninger of the Menninger Foundation every Wednesday. They discussed world events, philosophy, ethics ...
To the editor: In the Thanksgiving Day Your Turn about the former Sunrise Gardens site at 15th Street and Learnard Avenue, Riggs Skepnek has, in my opinion, captured the thoughts, feelings and wishes of the majority of people in Lawrence. We actually care about how our town evolves into ...
Leaders can unite or divide, whether it be by design or by misstep. Thanksgiving’s evolution shows how both can happen. On Oct. 3, 1863, amid profound division and upheaval of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a formal proclamation that established a National Day of ...
