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To the editor: I write in response to your article about the “Palestine solidarity group” that gathered on KU’s campus and issued certain demands of the administration. I appreciated that your article listed all four of them. They included: (1) KU divest from organizations that profit ...
Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio has begun to remind me of an old saying about Chicago weather: If you don’t like it, just wait a few minutes. The same could be said — and some people do say it — about Vance’s big flip-flop from Trump critic to the reputed short list of possible ...
The Biden administration recently stopped a plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The excellent arguments for why they are dangerous were overcome by good arguments for why making them illegal didn’t make sense. In a world of optimal health, no one would be smoking menthol ...
As Morningside Heights goes, so goes the Levant. This is the childishly self-dramatizing conceit that’s been driving the pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University, with similar ideas playing into protests elsewhere. It allows students living privileged lives at elite universities to ...
To the editor: In light of a recent, deeply troubling crash that resulted in one man’s death and three people being seriously injured, it is worth noting that the city has recently begun efforts to create a Vision Zero Action Plan. Vision Zero is an international movement to eliminate ...
To the editor: Please preserve the current wetlands footprint and don’t diminish what is already threatened by the New Boston Crossing project. Please don’t seek profit from what looks to others as empty available land but is land that frames and supports the precious and unique wetlands. ...
