The most dangerous word in America right now just might be “they.”  See if this tragic pattern sounds familiar. Something awful happens. Everyone immediately jumps to blame “them” for causing it. Half the country picks…

Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too much to expect from the nation’s Attorney General? Progressives have spent years trying to create and define a category called “hate speech.” This misunderstanding of the…

Did we miss Congress’s authorization to use military force against Venezuelan drug-runners? On Monday, President Donald Trump announced a second strike this month against a vessel he said was carrying illegal drugs. An accompanying video…

There was something sadly fitting about the fact that Missouri Senate Republicans on Friday shut down legislative debate in order to ram through two momentous measures designed to deprive our state’s citizens of full and…

The sharp-eyed birds lift into flight the moment you open the door. The canny squirrels and darting lizards are up a tree at the first oof of your footfall. To study such cautious creatures, you need a…

Ask a high school student about the last book they read, and you may be disappointed to learn they never cracked open The Catcher in the Rye or trudged through Shakespeare. Instead, they turned to…

Myrlanne Smith of Moran came into the newspaper office earlier this week to cancel a subscription she had provided for a grandson. “They won’t let him have it any more,” she said, referring to the…

City of Olathe Project RZ25-0007 — a 140-foot-tall cold storage warehouse bordering Lone Elm Park — is winding through the city’s approval process. The owner, the $18 billion corporation Lineage, Inc., expects public incentives: industrial…

Susan Monarez’s 28-day tenure as the nation’s top public-health official was doomed from the start. Her boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wanted her to do two things: champion his dubious anti-vaccine agenda and uphold “gold-standard…

The assassination of Charlie Kirk — the founder of a youth political movement that helped revolutionize modern conservatism — at Utah Valley University on Wednesday is a tragedy. His killing is also part of a…