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.
If there’s one thing that keeps me up at night, it’s my worry that those of us who are dedicated to democracy and therefore committed to playing by the rules are underestimating the willingness of House Republicans to break the rules to elect Trump. It’s easy to forget that most current ...
This is not directly about the issues animating the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations at many colleges. Rather it’s about the air of privilege filling the sails of hypocrisy on which many ride. Start with the masks that protestors use to hide their identities. And from whom? In many ...
To the editor: The homeless situation has grown worse in Lawrence over the past 20 years. During this time much effort has been put into the study of homelessness by city leaders and members of the community. It is a complicated problem that requires help from many areas — city, state and ...
To the editor: As a faculty retiree from the English department at the University of Kansas, I read with great interest the article in in a recent Journal-World that “KU faculty votes to form union by a large margin,” more specifically by a vote of 850 to 132. This was not the first ...
To the editor: In “Did legalized abortion lead to lower crime rates?” (the editorial by Froma Harrop on April 19), Harrop entices readers while begging the question (i.e., whether abortion is a crime). Then, leaving the effect of abortion on crime unanswered, she concludes with a familiar ...
Recently as I drove my Silent Generation father-in-law on an out-of-town trip along I-70, he made a peculiar observation. “I never noticed this before but there’s plastic bags everywhere. My gosh. It looks terrible!” Peculiar because he’s typically not a passenger-seat guy. Peculiar ...
