One-hundred-fifty years ago Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant and brought an end to the armed rebellion we call the Civil War. One-hundred fifty years and only now have we reached the moment when Southern mythology about the Civil… more »

It appears that Sam Brownback and his posse of Republican legislators are hell-bent on resurrecting “bleeding Kansas” in some bizarre 21st-Century form. Having blown up the Jayhawk state’s formerly sound fiscal condition with sweeping tax cuts,… more »