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How Many Missouri Lives Will Eric Schmitt Endanger To Win a Senate Seat? Dec. 14, 2021
As Missouri's attorney general, Eric Schmitt's job on paper is primarily to defend the state's inter... Read More
Greitens Dared To Criticize a Bad Law; After Pushback, He Reversed Himself Dec. 09, 2021
Days after taking a forceful and laudable stand against Missouri's Second Amendment Protection Act, ... Read More
Is the Rift Between the Public and the C-Suites Permanent? Dec. 07, 2021
HANNIBAL, Missouri — During a visit here in 1882, Mark Twain wrote to his wife Olivia of the r... Read More
Parson's 'Common Sense' Goes Out the Window in Debate Between Politics, Health Dec. 06, 2021
A new report says that Missouri's new health director delivered the results of a recent study to Gov... Read More
NFL Settlement Is a Big Win for St. Louis but Leave Big Issues Unresolved Nov. 29, 2021
National Football League team owners, including a deservedly humbled Stan Kroenke, appear to have av... Read More
Attorney General's Latest Stunt Is to Imply Something Nefarious in Mask Rules Nov. 22, 2021
Step right up, Eric Schmitt's latest legal clown show is underway. The Missouri attorney general and... Read More
Allegations of Greitens Campaign Fund Shenanigans Have a Familiar Ring to Them Nov. 01, 2021
In what may qualify as the least-surprising development in Missouri politics lately, disgraced forme... Read More
Was Schmitt's Texas Trip a Campaign Event or Official Action? Both, It Seems Oct. 27, 2021
In a transparent political stunt reminiscent of his silly lawsuit against China's government, Missou... Read More
Efficiency Is Costly Oct. 20, 2021
When I was a youngster in Yazoo City, Miss., twice each week — on Tuesday and Friday nights &#... Read More
The 'Hands-off' Party Is Ordering Schools and Businesses to Risk Lives in the Pandemic Oct. 18, 2021
Republican politicians once defended a "hands-off" approach to local government and entrepreneurship... Read More
Dithering on Drug-monitoring Program Let Abuses Continue Oct. 13, 2021
Details of a recent $1.51 million federal court settlement involving a Creve Coeur pharmacy undersco... Read More
A Decade Ago, the GOP Purged Todd Akin as a Radical. Today, it Embraces Worse. Oct. 05, 2021
Former congressman Todd Akin, the Missouri Republican who died late Sunday, sparked one of the bigge... Read More
Hawley's Latest Attention-Grabbing Stunt Could Endanger National Security Sep. 27, 2021
Sen. Showy McShowboat, R-Mo., is at it again. Josh Hawley, Missouri's Republican junior senator, has... Read More
Ashcroft Effectively Admits That Widespread Vote Fraud Is a GOP Myth. Sep. 21, 2021
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft effectively admitted last week that his party has concocted... Read More
Texas and Missouri Schemes to Monetize Right-Wing Extremism Must Not Stand Sep. 15, 2021
The Justice Department's lawsuit last week against the state of Texas over its extreme new anti-abor... Read More
Rejecting Societal Safety Measures May Feel Liberating, but the Costs Are Real Sep. 10, 2021
New data shows a marked increase in Missouri motorcycle fatalities since the state lifted its helmet... Read More
The Days of Consequence-Free Vaccination Refusal Are Finally Ending Aug. 30, 2021
The number of major employers — not merely companies but also government entities — now ... Read More
Thank Our Troops and Blame Their Commander in Chief Aug. 27, 2021
It is hard to believe President Joe Biden cares more about the United States than the rest of the wo... Read More
It Has Come to This: Biden Must Protect Kids from Their Own State Politicians Aug. 26, 2021
In an ironic twist on the old Republican claim to be the protectors of "local control" in schools, R... Read More
New Missouri Law, Not Yet in Effect, Is Already Aiding Bad Guys With Guns Aug. 23, 2021
A radical new Missouri law declaring federal firearms restrictions unenforceable in the state isn't ... Read More
