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Max McCoy
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Reflections on a winter storm — and the worst blizzard in Kansas history
You know when the winter country has arrived in Kansas because the sky at midday is a shade of blue that throbs with light but...

We all share the painful memories of the Capitol attack 4 years ago. Trump granting pardons to the attackers will make it worse.
Granting pardons and commutations is the most king-like of all presidential actions, enshrined in Article II of the Constitution.

The Devil and Political dynamite: Kansas Sex Radicals Moses and Lillian Harman Are Newly Relevant
Although Lillian Harman was not as famous as other sex radicals in Victorian America, her prosecution resonates today regarding equality, free speech and the role...

We Must Protect American Democracy From Elected Authoritarians and Their Macgoblins
I realized that there was really only one dystopian novel to talk about at this moment: “It Can’t Happen Here.” Because it has.

Want to make America a Christian nation? Then let’s talk faith, fact and disappointment.
At no point did the preacher from Joplin or the one at the Baptist Church ask my political beliefs, say it was unpatriotic to belong...

Was hate the motive of the Jackie Robinson statue theft?
Whatever the motive for the crime — whether it was premediated racial hate or an opportunistic act of vandalism — the theft of the statue...