Opinion

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Opinion: Trump and Hegseth trample the Constitution

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child’s cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it “For your Christmas wish list,” it understandably caused an ...

Opinion: Questions for & about city managers

Last month, two Kansas cities made decisions central to their future. The first city was Prairie Village, a town of barely 20,000 people; the second was Wichita, the largest municipality in the state, with almost 20 times PV’s population. Despite their differences and the many distinct issues ...

Opinion: Europe’s choice: Face Russia now or surrender later

Europe is in a state of decline. In 1980 the European Union, which then included the United Kingdom, represented roughly 30% of the world economy. The U.S.’ share was smaller, about 25%. Today the American share of the pie is about the same at 26%. The EU plus the UK is now around 17%, ...

Opinion: American experiment isn’t what’s failing

Spend five minutes listening to the American Left’s most theatrical tribunes — Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — and you’ll probably hear tales of a country on the verge of collapse, crushed by a rigged system that can be fixed only through a radical ...

Opinion: Women: the ones who stand up to Trump

Reader, who are the people who have stood up to President Donald Trump and confronted him, face to his furious face? Answer: Women, and only women, have done so publicly. Running for president, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris put ...