Commentary: Trump immigration plan sound

Donald Trump has a well thought-out immigration program, far better than anything Hillary Clinton ever came up with, and it's not mass deportation for every illegal immigrant in the land. Much was spelled out months ago and a major modification was added later, but now it seems no one has been listening, and so we are having weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Steve Bannon’s ‘brand’ should have no place in the White House

Breitbart News, under Steve Bannon's leadership, became a website where a confusing mix of real racists and anti-establishment mischief-makers would post hate speech and misogynist memes in the comments of articles such as "Why White People Seek Black Privilege" and "Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy." Mr. Bannon then left Breitbart to head Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and now he has been named the chief strategist of Mr. Trump's presidency.

In Our View: Sessions Poses Threat to Pot

Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as attorney general could have dire consequences for Washington state's marijuana industry, for the wishes of the public, and for common sense when it comes to federal drug policy. While Trump said during the campaign that, "In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state-by-state," Sessions is an old-school hard-liner when it comes to drug policy.

Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims could weaken his presidency

That's what President-elect Donald Trump has done by claiming to have won the popular vote after discounting for "the millions of people who voted illegally." Trump offered no evidence of voter fraud, and by so baldly staking a demonstrably false claim he risks damaging the integrity of the very representative democracy that just elected him president.

Europeans anxious about Trump outreach to Putin

The annual Halifax International Security Forum brings together senior Canadian, European, and U.S. military and civilian officials, and you can guess what was on everyone's mind this year: To be more specific, the crowd was eager to pump U.S. participants, including a bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators, about whether Trump would turn his back on NATO and cozy up to Vladimir Putin. Many asked whether the president-elect might hold an early meeting with Putin even before getting together with NATO allies - which would send a dangerous signal.

Castro’s death end of era, but oppression likely to continue

Fidel Castro's death certainly is the end of an era, that of the cult of personality that kept Cubans oppressed and without economic opportunity for decades. For more than half a century, Castro ran Cuba as a communist enclave in the new world.

Malcolm, Mr Zero, Turnbull and the all-time high flight of voters to minor parties

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Matt Johnson: No single theory has fully explained Trump’s victory

Over the past three weeks, almost every pundit in the country has developed a Grand Unifying Theory of Donald Trump's Shocking Victory. Casey Quinlan, an education reporter at ThinkProgress, says "many members of the media wanted to consider anything but racism" as the engine of Trump's campaign: " as if it couldn't possibly be so straightforward."

Editorial: Disabled Kansans are waiting too long for care

Thousands of Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities are languishing on a seven-year waiting list to get services that would allow them to live independently, according to NPR. Kansas officials must address the waiting list with all possible speed, fulfilling our obligation to offer a safety net to our most vulnerable citizens.