Opinion

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Opinion: The ‘China Shock’ myth is unraveling

When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China’s rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue-collar communities devastated. Known now as the “China shock,” that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in protectionism, ...

Opinion:Tourism program is a smart investment

In 2021, Kansas Tourism launched the Sunflower Summer program, opening the doors to our state’s zoos, museums, nature centers and historical sites to Kansas families — for free. Designed to help young Kansans explore and fall in love with their home state, the program has quickly proven to ...

Opinion: A long walk to protest ICE’s mass deportations

On foot and carrying flags, they crossed the Mason-Dixon line — the old American border between slavery and freedom - walking to Washington, D.C., over the course of three weeks in May. They canoed across the broad, grand Susquehanna River. They walked more than 300 miles from New York to ...

Opinion: How to protect our nation’s judges

One of our highest priorities in this darkness must be to protect the people who are doing the most right now to push back against Trump’s tyranny: our judiciary. In some 180 judicial rulings so far, federal judges have at least temporarily stopped Trump from (1) deporting and/or ...

Letter to the editor: A big, ugly lie

To the editor: The Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) is anything but. It is reshaping our form of government, which for all its flaws, has strived to improve the lives of Americans. This bill will do the opposite. As Heather Cox Richardson explains in Letter From An American, June 2, 2025: The ...

Letter to the editor: Heron death is a tragic reminder

To the editor: It breaks my heart to see a photo of a dead great blue heron on the front page of your May 28 issue. The accompanying article describes how it died after being tangled in an abandoned fishing line. Thank you for the tragic and important reminder of how our careless actions ...