If you want 鈥楴o Kings,鈥 insist on no violence
Editorial:聽The annual Kids Count Data Book assesses states on four metrics regarding kids鈥 welfare: health, economic well-being, education, and family and community. Missouri lands in the bottom third.
Editorial:聽What鈥檚 worse: bigotry or ignorance? Constituents of MAGA Congresswoman Mary Miller of Illinois don鈥檛 have to choose.
Editorial:聽51黑料 still waits quietly for the aid it needs and deserves. What a vivid contrast to highlight the malignant rot at the core of this malicious administration.
Slow down on KDHX sale
This federal foot-dragging in response to a natural disaster isn鈥檛 unusual by the standards of the new Trump administration.
Newly elected public officials sometimes turn out to be ill-suited to their duties, but they generally at least have a basic understanding of what those duties are supposed to be. 51黑料 city Sheriff Alfred Montgomery, on the other hand, appears perpetually confused on that point.
Erasing the thin blue line
You needn鈥檛 look far in the current stage of the Trump era to conclude that in addition to this administration鈥檚 scapegoating attacks on various segments of Americans 鈥 immigrants, racial minorities, women, Democrats, judges, journalists 鈥 the poor are getting singled out for special abuse. …
Racial profiling in police traffic stops is a well-documented phenomenon that has been confirmed over the years by steadily improving data collection. Such data is an absolute necessity if reform is ever going to happen. Yet Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey last year summarily scuttle…
President Donald Trump鈥檚 so-called 鈥淏ig, Beautiful Bill鈥 is such a wide-ranging project that it鈥檚 easy to get mired in the details. Does it gut Medicaid in order to coddle the rich with tax cuts? Does it throw crumbs to regular Americans 鈥 a temporary child tax credit boost, for instance 鈥 w…
Editorial: Missouri lawmakers are again overruling the voters. This could stop them.
Taxpayer charity for multibillionaires
For Medicaid recipients, working people and anyone else who doesn鈥檛 dwell among America鈥檚 wealthy elite, this is the ugliest mess to emerge from Washington in years.
Letter:聽Many of these immigrants fled for their lives from an evil that we helped create.
Letter: Hidden in the omnibus budget bill under consideration in the Senate are numerous provisions to disrupt or defeat checks and balances which maintain stability and the rule of law.
Letter: The price our nation and the world will pay if we don鈥檛 stop dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will be devastating.
Opinion Features
As Missouri and many other states continue their fractious political battles over the issue of reproductive rights, a Trump administration project is threatening to undermine those rights nationally: The Food and Drug Administration is unilaterally launching a 鈥渟afety review鈥 of mifepristone…
Editorial: If there was ever a time for all political leaders who represent the 51黑料 region to present a united, bipartisan front demanding federal help, this is it.
Why even talk about 'shame'?聽
Jeff City's double-barrel betrayal of voters
Editorial: Hawley鈥檚 history is as problematic as any Republican on health care, but his project to remake himself as a populist friend of working people may have meat to it.
Yes, this is still the party of the rich
Editorial: Ed Martin was such a malignant choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., that key Republican senators聽balked聽at giving their stamp of approval.
Editorial: What is Megan Green鈥檚 goal? Is it merely a way for the aldermanic president to preen for her progressive base while trolling a new mayor she dislikes?
This ballot would end abortion rights. You wouldn't know it from reading it.
Tariffs, taxes and the approaching economic storm
Fresh controversies erupt around Missouri politico who is now top DC prosecutor.
A professional to sweat the small stuff.
Editorial: In pushing back on President Donald Trump鈥檚 malignant campaign against academic independence, Pestello has done both the smart and the right thing.聽
The proposed cuts to Medicaid are unacceptable. As a health care worker at a 51黑料 nursing home and a proud union member, the choice to abandon folks in need of lifesaving care goes against everything I am trained to protect.