Editorials

President Joe Biden’s remark Monday about a U.S. military response should China invade Taiwan was no gaffe and didn’t deserve to be walked back by his aides. Biden knew exactly what he was saying. He…

Imagine seeing a commercial featuring Ryder and Marshall from “Paw Patrol” lighting up cigarettes and enjoying a smoke together. It’s hard to fathom that happening, but in 1961, beloved cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Barney…

Truth by truth, Vladimir Putin’s veneer is beginning to crack. On Monday, a Russian envoy to the United Nations told his colleagues that Putin could have spent the last two decades “developing the country” but…

The U.S. women’s national soccer team is no stranger to winning — yet this week’s victory closing the gender pay gap between the squad and its male counterpart must taste especially sweet. The battle was…

The West — the United States, its NATO allies, and a few other nations — have greatly aided Ukraine in its heroic resistance to the Russian invasion, now in its 11th week. Washington and its…

Even as America topped a million coronavirus deaths on Monday, congressional Republicans continued playing games with vaccine funding, holding it up over an unrelated immigration debate. The same short-sighted politics are also preventing the U.S.…

With no explanation, the Kansas Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a state district judge’s ruling that the new state and congressional voting maps violate the state constitution for being overly partisan. In the ruling, the…

Politics, not people, should determine how Kansas’  state and Congressional district maps should be drawn, the plaintiffs argued Monday. And the fact that Republican lawmakers hold a supermajority in both the Senate and the House…

He may play one on TV but Tucker Carlson is no fool. When the Fox News commentator stares into the camera on his talk show and rants for 10 minutes that President Biden’s immigration policies…

Once again, the truism that hate speech fosters violence has been tragically reconfirmed, this time in Buffalo, New York. A white supremacist’s rampage Saturday that killed 10 was fueled by so-called replacement theory, the far-right…