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  • I’m a Republican. The party has too many weirdos
    For the past two years, President Trump and his core supporters have governed by the mantra “We can just…
    by Erick Erickson – Guest essay for The New York Times / November 6, 2026

  • Now Masterson wants the three-day grace period
    As regular readers of my column know, I have quite the appetite for irony. And irony doesn’t get any…
    by Dion Lefler – Wichita Eagle / November 5, 2026

  • Worried about uncertainty? Science has the answers
    John Maddox, the longtime editor of Nature, was once asked how much of what the international scientific journal published…
    by Stuart Firestein – Guest essay for The Washington Post / November 5, 2026

  • The quiet brilliance of Adam Hamilton’s campaign
    Blue Kansas? Really?! Yes. Remarkably, Adam Hamilton’s victory over the incumbent Republican senator Roger Marshall became not only possible…
    by E.J. Dionne Jr., guest opinion for The New York Times / November 4, 2026

  • Writing was on the wall for Sen. Marshall’s defeat
    U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall officially lost his seat to the Rev. Adam Hamilton on Tuesday night as part of…
    by Clay Wirestone – Kansas Reflector / November 4, 2026

  • We face our nation’s fourth great crisis
    There have been three great crises in American history: the Civil War, perhaps the defining event in our history…
    by Ken Burns – Guest essay for The New York Times / November 3, 2026

  • Epstein survivors deserve answers
    For years, the Jeffrey Epstein case has been treated like entertainment in this country. A spectacle, a conspiracy theory,…
    by Elizabeth Stein – Guest opinion for USA Today / November 2, 2026

  • Don Coover earns right to serve us in Congress
    For some reason, I track U.S. Rep. Derek Schmidt’s political trajectory with the milestones of my youngest son, Aaron,…
    by Susan Lynn-Register editor / October 30, 2026

  • EMS talks have left me feeling hopeful for democracy
    I left Carlyle around 8 p.m. or so Thursday night. I’d spent an enjoyable hour and a half with…
    by Tim Stauffer, Register managing editor / October 30, 2026

  • Voting helps ground those disillusioned by government
    I think everyone should vote, but not for the aggravating script we’ve heard over the last two decades. I…
    by Faye Seidler – North Dakota Monitor / October 29, 2026

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