Missouri鈥檚 First Congressional District, encompassing St. Louis city and northern St. Louis County, is our region鈥檚 most direct connection to the federal government鈥檚 seat of power. For the past four years, the district has been in the hands of U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat who has general…
Editorial:聽What鈥檚 next, a book bonfire in the schoolyard?
Editorial: Time is short before next month鈥檚 Democratic National Convention but not so short that the party should careen toward a choice without calm and constructive discussion.
With President Joe Biden announcing Sunday that he has finally accepted the reality that his presidential campaign has become untenable, the 鈥淲hat now?鈥 looms large. The party division, infighting and chaos that nervous Democrats have spent weeks dreading if Biden leaves the ticket may well …
It鈥檚 way past time to pull over, Mr. President.
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Editorial: Trump just gave his base something to get excited about. Democrats can and should respond with their own shiny new ticket.
Saturday鈥檚 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump mustn鈥檛 be allowed to spawn the kind of escalating political violence that wracked America in the late 1960s. It must instead be the tragedy that thwarts escalation by shocking the nation into stepping back from the anger that…
It鈥檚 deeply ironic, not to mention grossly unfair, that President Joe Biden will spend whatever time remains of his presidential campaign having his every utterance publicly parsed for the slightest slip in syntax while challenger Donald Trump continues spewing his trademark torrents of gibb…
Lynn Schmidt hosts a solo podcast and share why Project 2025 and the current state of America's politics keeps her up at night.聽
Editorial: A St. Louis problem most American cities don鈥檛 have to contend with is state political leadership that is not merely ambivalent but outright hostile toward the city.
Letter:聽Had the assault weapon ban from years back continued to be in effect, this shooting might not have occurred.
Letter:聽We need people who aren't just answering to campaign donors, but candidates who are working to make all Missourians lives better, safer and healthier
Letter:聽The founders of our country would be shocked that a president would be able to abuse our system of justice the way Trump has.
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Editorial:聽The flip side of Bailey鈥檚 mendacious misuse of his office is the appalling extent to which he fails to fulfill the responsibilities that he鈥檚 actually supposed to carry out.
Why is the state of Missouri so impatient to kill Marcellus Williams?
Editorial: Losing businesses and people that stand against that extremism can only make it worse. Here鈥檚 hoping Rob Connoley reconsiders 鈥 or at least that others don鈥檛 follow his lead.
Author and co-founder of NewsGuard Steven Brill shares with Lynn Schmidt how we got to a place where there is little shared truths and offers some practical solutions.
Editorial: The ruling makes it far less likely Trump will be criminally convicted for his frontal attack on democracy while he was president.
Biden鈥檚 catastrophic (the only word for it) performance against Trump in the presidential debate makes continuing his campaign untenable.
Not far below where baseball fans today cheer the Cardinals was once an earthly hell. Under what is now the South Broadway and Clark Avenue area, bordering the current Busch Stadium, uncounted men, women and children were held in stony, dank basement caverns, some chained to walls, awaiting …
Before heading off to North Korea last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a 鈥減eace鈥 offering to Ukraine. He pledged an immediate cease-fire and peace negotiations if Ukraine withdraws from four partially occupied regions and abandons its bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His other stipulation, of course, is that the West lift sanctions. This offer was patently ...
It鈥檚 an axiom that Americans are more politically polarized today than we have been in generations. No wonder presidential debates of the past few cycles have become competing partisan rallies more than sober discussion of the issues. These days we tend to watch debates the way we watch foot…
Editorial:聽Missouri taxpayers 鈥 including those who want their attorney general to represent their state鈥檚 legal interests, instead of his own political campaign 鈥 get to foot the bill.
Ken Block, data analyst and author of the new book "Disproven", talks with Lynn Schmidt about his unbiased search for voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Editorial: When it comes to pro sports stadiums, let the billionaire team owners pay their own way.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued the kind of ruling that would once have been viewed as so obvious as to be unnecessary: Yes, the court said, judges have the constitutional authority to deny firearms to defendants who are under domestic-violence restraining orders.
Do Americans have the right to not practice religion?
Yes, President Joe Biden tends to shuffle when he walks these days. Yes, he can pause a little too long between sentences. And, no, entering his 80s hasn鈥檛 improved his lifelong rhetorical clumsiness.聽