Anyone with a late-teen daughter needs only to say the name “Finn Wolfhard,” one of the actors on Stranger Things, to see a human lose all higher function: linear thought, discernment, self-respect. It’s all out the window as she contemplates being the center of a boy god’s attention. Though it’s li…
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A man is dead in western Kansas.Erlin Y. Lagos-Gonzales, a Honduran citizen living in Garden City, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the Aug. 31 death of Adonis Edgardo Aguilar-Juarez at a livestock facility in Kearny County. A federal immigration judge had issued Lagos-Gonzales a fina…
Years ago, I worked with a person who habitually used the word “concerned.” They had a junior role on our team but, nevertheless, constantly interrupted meetings with her “concerns.” They’d come to me expressing “concern” for how something didn’t meet their satisfaction, always “concerned” about be…
President Donald Trump knows almost every poll shows him way underwater as the Republicans head into the midterm. He’s decided America’s freedom is going to drown with him.Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Republican state Sen. Jake Hoffman set out to expose Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ alleged pay-to-play mess and instead stepped into a money-making scheme of his own.Hoffman is now backpedaling subpoenas he issued last week against Hobbs, Attorney General Kris Mayes and others to appear before his le…
Donald Trump has been owned by Vladimir Putin since the late ’80s, and that’s why things are so terrible everywhere right now.It all sounds like something out of the TV show The Americans, but it’s actually true.And Republicans have known it all along, because there was a time (2015) when they spoke…
To the extent that the ubiquitous reports pointing to President Donald Trump holding a large poster-type document that reads “Kennedy Center Demolition” proves to be a plan of action in taking the first unequivocal steps to knock the gorgeous complex down, paired with Trump stating that he will with…
Today Donald Trump asked a seemingly rhetorical question to the UN General Assembly: Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic of Iran? Do I drive them into hell?But if you’ve been watching Trump especially close lately, you should not categorize those as rhetorical.Trump loves the word “hoax” — he used …
It is utterly exhausting and it’s tempting to write that no one can be blamed for turning away from it all in a combination of disgust and wonder. And yet, with stakes so high, it’s critical to review this administration’s insanity and racism.Because while perhaps one can hit pause and vacation from…
The recent White House decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the premises has produced the predictable mixture of outrage, legal analysis and hand-wringing. Our ‘Free Speech” president announced the ban on September 18, accusing the outlets of publishing what he called “FAKE NEWS.” By the fo…