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Biden Border Rule Won't Stop the Political Sniping but Could Stem the Migratory Flood May. 16, 2023
One of the keys to stemming the flow of new immigrants across the border is a Biden administration r... Read More
Decades After the Pill Riled America, Proposed Easier Access Sparks Little Furor May. 16, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing birth-control pills to be sold without a pr... Read More
CNN Embarrassed Itself by Handing Trump a Forum To Keep Spreading Lies May. 12, 2023
For all the legitimate criticism leveled at the Republican Party for enabling Donald Trump and stand... Read More
Proposal Would Suppress Missourians' Voices, Not Confront Illegal Voting May. 05, 2023
The effort by Missouri's Republican-led Legislature to overhaul the process for changing the state c... Read More
The Trump Surge May. 04, 2023
What does it say about politics today that Donald Trump is surging in the polls? That's right. In th... Read More
Apathy or Applause Among Voters for Trump's Relations with Women? May. 03, 2023
As evidence mounts that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room, so h... Read More
Another Republican Legislature Expels a Democrat, Citing 'Decorum.' That's Rich. May. 02, 2023
For the second time in less than a month, a Republican-controlled state legislature has blocked a De... Read More
Colorado's Nonstop Campaign Cash Dash May. 02, 2023
Adam Frisch is lending new meaning to "perpetual campaign." Instead of continuing to campaign for an... Read More
Bailey Bails on Court Fight With Unlicensed Gaming Figures Who Donate to Him May. 01, 2023
For years, critics have warned that political donations from Missouri's unlicensed video gaming indu... Read More
McCarthy Is in a Fight He Can't Possibly Win as a U.S. Debt Default Looms Apr. 28, 2023
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is in a pickle of his own making over next steps to address the nation'... Read More
Missouri Republicans Offer Every Remedy to School Shootings but the Obvious One Apr. 26, 2023
Missouri Republicans have some ideas for protecting the state's kids from mass shootings: Better loc... Read More
Taxpayers Have No Business Funding Religious Instruction in Public Schools Apr. 26, 2023
The Oklahoma Catholic Conference has fired the opening salvo in what promises to be a new front in t... Read More
Why the Pro-Life Side Will Win Apr. 26, 2023
"The GOP's Abortion Problem is Only Getting Worse," so said the headline of a story by Alex Shephard... Read More
In School Board Races Here and Elsewhere, the Lack of a Red Wave Is Encouraging Apr. 25, 2023
Around the St. Louis region, as around the nation, school board candidates espousing radical-right a... Read More
Andrew Bailey Is Going Off the Deep End by His Fellow Republicans' Assessment Apr. 24, 2023
It's been harder and harder lately to find areas of agreement with Missouri Secretary of State Jay A... Read More
Elderly Shooter Was 'Radicalized' by Fox, Grandson Says. He's Likely Not Alone. Apr. 24, 2023
The grandson of the elderly white Kansas City man accused of shooting a Black teenager who accidenta... Read More
Fistfights Aren't Gunfights. Knives Don't Go Off Accidentally. Yes, Guns Kill. Apr. 21, 2023
There's an old cliche in America's gun debate that is so anathema to common sense — Guns don'... Read More
Tale of an 11-Year-Old Bride Highlights Missouri's Right-Wing Hypocrisy Apr. 19, 2023
Missouri legislators who are trying to substitute their own judgment for that of doctors and parents... Read More
Voices in the Wilderness? Some GOP Moderates Are Boldly Calling Out Their Party. Apr. 18, 2023
A few moderate Republicans at long last are pushing back against their party's lurch to the extreme ... Read More
Planned Pardon in Fatal Shooting Is the GOP's Latest Retreat From Law and Order Apr. 13, 2023
Apparently, it's open season on Black Lives Matter protesters in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott didn't even... Read More
