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To the editor:
Since World War II America’s been the leader of the free world. The U.S. could be counted on for trade, goodwill and defense of allies. Under Joe Biden, Ukraine counted on us to stand up to Vladimir Putin. Then Donald Trump and JD Vance had hissy fits and our support is ...
One of my goals in writing this column is to alert you to dangers to our democracy so you can alert others, who then alert others, and by this means we enlarge and strengthen our bulwark against the tide of fascism.
Wars pose particular challenges to democracy because nations at war often ...
Dear Sen. Jerry Moran,
It’s me again, writing another of the no doubt thousands of letters and emails and texts that you’ve received over the past month, ever since the House of Representatives approved — by a one-vote margin — President Trump’s beloved One Big Beautiful Bill Act. ...
The proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” goes back to Roman times. But being repeated through the centuries doesn’t mean it’s always true.
Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump ordered warplanes to bomb Iranian nuclear ...
Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican from Louisiana, is also a doctor. He put up resistance last February to Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Bobby,” as Trump likes to call him, has long cast doubts on the safety of vaccines ...
Kansas has become a leader in clean energy. With abundant wind resources and smart, forward-looking policies in cities like Lawrence, our state has shown what’s possible with tax credits that jumpstart American manufacturing and drive a clean energy boom. In the last four years alone, these ...