If you were an adult 25 years ago, politically aware, and a Democrat, you remember the horror of watching George W. Bush win the presidency without winning the popular vote. I remember being up into the wee hours of the morning on election night in 2000, astonished and beleaguered that Bush was bein…
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U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, has taken it on the chin repeatedly over the past week.He wants another term in the Senate, but first he has to make it through an increasingly fraught election season.First, his campaign apparently shared an AI-generated graphic of Kansas showing its 105 counties…
Remember what a big hero Donald Trump was on 9/11/01? How he rushed over to the Ground Zero site to do whatever he could to assist? How he personally sent hundreds of workers to help in the first responders’ effort?Nope. I don’t remember that, and I’ll bet you don’t, either. But somehow our presiden…
Whenever I spoke with Gloria Steinem on my program over the years, I always got a sense of a person with incredible charisma, intellect, and a real grasp of what power was and how to use it. She was a force of nature.When the announcement that she’d passed away at 92 hit the news last week, it perfe…
Irish folklore has an old notion — one that can be interpreted as fun or profound — that certain weird or inexplicable circumstances are often “found along the fairy path.” More importantly, the phrase is entirely neutral; Irish lore teaches that one isn’t guaranteed to find a good-natured fairy wav…
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
The hot dog has been one of the presidency’s most delectable diplomatic tools, both foreign and domestic, for the better part of a century, and I’ll bet you had no idea.But of course, that’s all ruined since the trans fat-laden Donald Trump has made the endearing hot dog nothing more than a moldy, m…
One of the most critical issues facing Idaho is one that has received little attention but has profound consequences for the future of our state – the agreement that would make Idaho the dumping ground for a third of the radioactive waste generated in our country.It’s not surprising that Idahoans do…
On Nov. 3, Kansans will vote on whether to amend our state constitution, again. This time, we’ll be voting on whether to make it harder for many American citizens who live in Kansas to vote in future elections.The proposal would amend Section 1 of Article 5 of the Kansas Constitution to state that n…
President Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland next weekend is expected to send tens of thousands of furious protesters onto the streets — but it’s a tongue-lashing from a dignitary actually hosting his visit that might leave him reeling.Dublin politicians and activists expect seas of people to flood the…