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- By Kristen Wild
For more than three decades, the federal government released an annual comprehensive report on the state of hunger in America. But that ended in 2025 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would no longer produce Household Food Security reports.
- By Antonio French
Turns out, closing a jail is easy. Dealing with what happens next is the hard part.
- By Stephanie Bell
I am adopted, a mother of three, a proud Missourian and a constitutional attorney. I have spent my career studying and defending the words that bind our state.
- By Bridgette Dunlap
Two years ago, Missouri voters rejected the state's ban on abortion. Amendment 3, on this year's Nov. 3 ballot, would repeal that constitutional right and allow the ban to go back into effect.聽
- By Lynn Schmidt
There鈥檚 a word for how Americans should feel this week, and it isn鈥檛 anger.
- By Robert H. Linsey
The recent failed attempt by the state of Tennessee to execute Christa Pike again brings to the fore the question: Why do we continue to pursue the imposition of the death penalty in many parts of the United States, including Missouri?
World Food Day marks one of the great hopes for peace after World War II, the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It was on Oct. 16, 1945 鈥 81 years ago Friday 鈥 that聽the FAO was started at a conference in Quebec City, Canada.
Andrew Bailey has been back in Missouri for about two weeks, and he already has a message.
Between 2020 and 2023, the world lost millions of lives and trillions of dollars to a pandemic. High-risk "gain-of-function" research was conducted in labs with questionable security. When the dust settled, a question hung in the air: Who was accountable?
Missouri鈥檚 State Board of Education recently declined to seek a $300 million increase to fully support the state鈥檚 public school funding formula.
馃带 Automation promises greater productivity, yet workers risk losing the relationships, experience and sense of purpose that give their careers value.
Donald Trump famously likes to put his name on things he builds as monuments to himself. It might be conceited, vain and unseemly, but that is his right.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in trouble because years of neglect have left the national landmark unsafe, underfunded and waiting for someone else to pay the bills.
Opinion Features
Some weeks, the country seems to stare into a moral abyss, and the void of virtue seems to be winning. Cruelty gets called candor. Mockery gets called authenticity. Policies aimed at the most vulnerable get called efficiency. Americans who want something better are left looking for someone w…
In early August, Missouri voters decisively rejected two efforts to rewrite some of the basic rules of state government.
Artificial intelligence has become an inescapable presence in the news. From controversies over data centers to former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon鈥檚 chilling warning that AI 鈥渃ould kill us all by the end of the decade,鈥 concerns about the technology鈥檚 rapid advancement are intensifying.
For nearly two decades, I have lived and worked in North 最新杏吧原创. Over the coming years, significant resources will be invested here. Vacant land will be developed. Houses will be built. Businesses will open.
Eligibility for medical care under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program narrowed on Oct. 1. Nationwide these changes will affect tens of thousands of refugees, asylees, parolees and victims of trafficking聽鈥 unless they have another qualifying immigration status.
When Medicare announced last fall that ostomy and urological supplies would be included in its next competitive bidding program, my first thought was simple: What will this mean for our customers?聽
A lengthy Post-Dispatch editorial ("Shameless trans ad shows how low they'll go to trick voters on abortion rights,"聽Sept. 23) complained about a television commercial denouncing transgender medical procedures for minors.聽
馃带 Talking about others can strengthen relationships, build trust and reinforce social norms 鈥 but knowing when to stay quiet still matters.
Editor's note: The Post-Dispatch Editorial Board last week asked: "What to do about homelessness? We want to hear from readers." This op-ed, along with all of Sunday's letters to the editor, are among the answers we've received.
My daughter Megan was 13 years old. She loved swimming, boating, fishing, dogs, rap music and boys. But our lives forever changed in 2006 when a boy named Josh Evans started talking to Megan on MySpace.
Walk through Busch Stadium on any given night, and the jerseys will tell you which players the fans came to see. On Sept. 19, the names on their backs spent eight innings on the bench.
Last Monday, Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt showed he still knows how old-fashioned politics works.
Most people probably don鈥檛 spend much time wondering whether a professional basketball player, a zoo educator, or a corporate executive would make a good teacher.
In my first column last month, I told you where I鈥檓 coming from 鈥 both personally and geographically 鈥 as chairman of the board of Lee Enterprises, the parent company of your local newspaper.
Federal judges who intervened last month to try to block the Missouri Supreme Court鈥檚 unanimous congressional redistricting decision have track records of strong partisanship on behalf of President Donald Trump. One, Appeals Judge Justin D. Smith, was Trump鈥檚 lawyer in the E. Jean Carroll se…
馃带 Behind an idealized image of simplicity and community are difficult questions about education, healthcare, gender roles, individual freedom and belonging.