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.
To the editor: I read with alarm the mayor’s recent vision for Lawrence: more buildings, more annexed land, more housing developments. What I did not read was a single word about climate change. Not one acknowledgment of the environmental consequences of this expansion. Not one plan for ...
Will someone please tell President Trump that he’s not running against Joe Biden anymore? That much should be obvious, even to casual observers, but, halfway into his second term, he can’t seem to let his former opponent go. “Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I am fixing ...
For years, pointing out the obvious was considered impolite: America’s biggest, most distortionary transfer of wealth does not flow from elites to the working class. Nor does it show up as corporate welfare. It flows from the relatively young and poor to the relatively old and wealthy. ...
When I go to synagogue, I always smile and wave at the armed police officers stationed outside. I want them to know they’re appreciated, but also, at some level, I guess it’s fair to say that I’m trying to ingratiate myself so that the cop will want to put his or her life on the line to ...
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, ...
As the year comes to its end, thoughts often take an introspective turn. For me, for reasons both personal and public, that turn has me reflecting on the matriarchal nature of our state. Of course, given Kansas’ strong conservative streak and often rather traditional Christian culture, ...
