• Picks for ‘26

    Blue

    Ninety-four years ago. That’s the last time Kansas sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. It was 1932, well before they whisked away Dorothy to Oz. In the 1939 movie, the little girl in the red shoes is swept up by a tornado, along with her dog Toto, their house and then dropped in the magical land of Oz. Turns out, after Dorothy wakes up in her bed, it was all a dream. But in the book – L. Frank Baum’s original 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – it wasn’t. It’s all real. As real as the Cowardly Lion’s courage, the Scarecrow’s brain and the Tin Man’s heart. And as…