Opinion
MEMPHIS — In January, my former high school classmate Larry Thorn was shot dead. Larry was sweet and beloved and a coach and secretary at a Shelby County, Tenn., middle school when he was killed…
As I teach my college-bound seniors “Antigone,” in what will be their final month and a half of school, I am asking them to consider: What laws are worth breaking? What superordinate priorities should people…
The best time to counsel a woman about abortion is long before she becomes pregnant. Not when she’s in the process. But on Friday, Kansas lawmakers passed legislation that requires physicians tell patients that abortion…
Much of what the world knows about the catastrophe befalling the Uyghur people, a Turkic Muslim ethnic minority in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, comes from satellite imagery and leaked government police files. Over the…
The Kansas State University men’s basketball team advanced to the Elite 8 last month before falling to Florida Atlantic. For first-year coach Jerome Tang, the accomplishment was exceptional. In those ways, playing in the fourth…
The expulsion of two Tennessee lawmakers for daring to speak out for gun control is a shocking assault on democracy and speech — in an era in which assaults on democracy and speech are becoming…
On Thursday, ProPublica published a blockbuster report suggesting ethical recklessness on the part of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The report details years of luxury trips and other gifts that Justice Thomas apparently received courtesy…
For the past several years Kansas families have suffered from a systemic lack of childcare. Access to childcare is a problem in both urban and rural areas. 104 of the state’s 105 counties have a…
Congratulations to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, who met on Wednesday in an historic meeting at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. As it happens, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi…
It’s been so long since there was any cause for optimism in Yemen that you might want to cross your fingers before you read on: The likelihood of an environmental catastrophe in the Red Sea,…
