Democrats solidified their 4-3 progressive majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, and the ramifications are nationwide. The comfortable win by Democratic Judge Susan Crawford is the second sign in two weeks of a…

Emmanuel Macron’s troubled second presidential term was already set to go down as one of the most turbulent in the history of France’s Fifth Republic.  A succession of prime ministers have come and gone at…

LAKE PLACID, NY. — As the owner of the Mirror Lake Inn Resort and Spa in Lake Placid, New York, I have had the privilege of being part of a community that embodies the best…

President Donald Trump has announced plans to merge the U.S. Postal Service into the Commerce Department, calling the Postal Service “a tremendous loser for this country.”  He’s not wrong. Over the past four years, the…

President Donald Trump is coming at climate policy with the ferocity of a wildfire.  He has ridiculed regulations on carbon emissions and gutted agencies designed to carry them out.  His Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee…

Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall has given a new meaning to MAGA: Make America Gangsters Again.  When I saw that Marshall had posted on Facebook that he’s sponsoring a bill in Congress to bring back sawed-off…

With the aid of a supermajority in both houses of the Kansas Legislature, Republican lawmakers are a step closer to achieving their dream of politicizing the Kansas Supreme Court. That’s what will happen if voters…

Not so long ago, helping refugees get settled was largely uncontroversial.  Since World War II, the United States has distinguished between immigrants, who choose to leave their country, and refugees, who are forced to.  In…

Dear editor, While attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Lehigh Portland Visitor Center at Lehigh State Park last week, I was flooded with memories of this beautiful place.  When I first moved to Iola…

They talked by phone for over two hours, but Vladimir Putin left Donald Trump with almost nothing to show for it — a slap in the face that only a man possessed of unbounded chutzpah…