Opinion by Max McCoy: Adam Hamilton has more in common with the largely forgotten evangelical populist William Jennings Bryan than George McGill, the last Kansas Demcorat to win a U.S. Senate race — i...

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Recently I made a pilgrimage to the ancient tree at Council Grove to escape, if only temporarily, from the crush of current events and to feel beneath my hand the furrowed bark of the natural world.

Secrecy has been a hallmark of the data center assault on rural America, and few subjects have been as secret — or as enigmatic — as the money behind the proposed “digital campus” for my town of Empor...

Max McCoy at the Lawrence Arts Center

Anthony — founded in 1878 and named after the governor at the time — is the unlikely site of the state’s official 9/11 memorial.

City governments shouldn’t bury the truth with exorbitant fees, sketchy denials and endless delays for open records requests.

Not since the turbulent protests of the Vietnam War era have so many taken paint and posterboard in hand to express their displeasure.

We've had unusual weather here in Kansas this summer, and it seems to match a collective sense of cultural unease.

Claridge has become the face of data center resistance because video of their arrest at a city commission meeting went hyperscale.

On warm nights when my bedroom window was open, I could hear the endless stream of vehicles on Route 66. We lived in a small house at the east edge of Baxter Springs and across the street from my wind...

Thursday is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and we’re still struggling with the ability to annihilate ourselves.

Not long ago every newsroom had a police scanner. I’m not talking about the days when ashtrays overflowed with cigarette butts and a bottle of scotch was kept in a desk drawer to toast special occasio...

It was a time of great and fervent excitement. By act of Congress, citizens were asked to turn to their Creator in supplication.

Lately you've discovered that it's more difficult to find information you used to take for granted as a dystopia descends.

The debate over the data center proposal has been fierce in Emporia, mirroring arguments in Kansas and across the rest of the country.

If there’s a symbol for the summer of 1876, it isn’t a gallant last stand. Instead, it is the steamboat Far West.

We must declare our independence from the gauds and shams of our present age and begin the work of liberty anew.

Emporia has mounted a full court press in favor of the project, including sponsoring a bus trip to visit a model data center in Oklahoma.

The Red Legs are a “violent extremist group,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.

A development group has been quietly working for eight months on a deal to develop a 1,000-acre “hyperscale” data center in Emporia.

Americans are tested at intervals of about a generation or two about what kind of country we’d like to live in.

There are 15 names on a stone monument in a shoulder of the cemetery that stand as a testament to the struggle for a living equality.

Trump's message seeks to fabricate an American founding that never was in order to justify an imperial presidency that was never intended.

That Heppner turned to Claude to prepare his legal advice, and that I have a legal connection to the AI agent, is bizarre.

Each spring, those of us on the Great Plains keep an eye on the weather, especially when a day yields to a evening and tornadoes threaten.

Among the things we’ve collectively lost in this period of political chaos is not just the time but the attention required to cultivate that bit of our souls that responds to art.

Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module, and ponder the fragility and strength of humanity.

The president of the United States threatened genocide against Iran, an acrid veil hung over streets and homes and businesses.

Trump’s efforts to reshape America in his white, privileged image has not been confined to an assault on truth. He started tearing stuff down.

Rabbi Moti Rieber shouted in frustration from the gallery of the Kansas Senate after it overturned the governor’s veto of an anti-trans law.