When someone says “It’s all gone to Hell in a handbasket,” what they mean is that everything is utterly and irredeemably ruined. But why Hell? And why a handbasket, of all things?

A lot about the world feels dark right now. We’re reeling from a turbulent presidential race. Processing an attempted ...

“Despite the massive growth of independent journalism, there’s still this idea that news is only “real” once it’s confirmed by massive corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely ...

Kabas publishes her own newsletter, called The Handbasket, on Beehiiv. She broke down how she built and is growing her newsletter business, which has 17,500 subscribers. Everything changed for ...

Like the economy and crime before it, perceptions of First Amendment freedoms are largely seen through a partisan lens.

Kabas has her own website, the Handbasket, but to give the story wider visibility, she posted a screen shot of the memo on the social media site Bluesky. Then she waited. Her stomach was in knots.

This story is part of a series by Kansas Reflector and The Handbasket to examine the one-year anniversary of the raid on the Marion County Record. MARION — When police raided the Marion ...

Kabas has her own website, the Handbasket, but to give the story wider visibility, she posted a screen shot of the memo on the social media site Bluesky. Then she waited. Her stomach was in knots.