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 1980, America’s publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25% of annual U.S. GDP. Today, that figure is a little over $30 trillion, or around 100% of GDP. And as the federal debt grew 42 times larger over that span, the economy grew ...
“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay in Compact. She ...
The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University has released the report from their 2025 Kansas Speaks public opinion survey. This survey, conducted each fall since 2009, covers questions from satisfaction with political officials and institutions to attitudes on public ...
The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It’s true that other presidents ...
To the editor: If you, like me, are talking with others about the City Commission and school board candidates, let’s make those conversations factual. At a benefit for Van Go I heard that an individual associated with a neighborhood “excluded the only currently serving City Commission ...
To the editor: I saw the opened bag of chips before I heard her voice. As the woman lifted her half gallon of milk onto Just Food’s checkout table where I volunteer every Friday, she must have felt as if she’d been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. She said, “I am sorry. I am just ...
