I applaud the Iola-USD 257 school board for their willingness to rethink its laptop policy at the high school. Change is easy to criticize; as an elected official, it’s often easier to just leave things…

From Spring Hill to the Flint Hills, Tonganoxie to Finney County, data center proposals provoke strong, public opposition. After pushback, the proposal in Spring Hill was withdrawn. Across the KC metro in Independence, Missouri, two city officials…

On Russian oil, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has begun asking the right questions. This week, the Republican senator pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio over repeated waivers of sanctions on the sale of Russian oil…

This is a reflective time of year for me. My father, Ronald Reagan, died in June 2004, and each year I let myself drift into whatever realm my thoughts and memories lead me to. Sometimes…

Recently, close to 600 leaders from across the country — representing some of the nation’s largest grant makers, community foundations, and grassroots groups — gathered in Seattle. They joined forces to strategize on how to…

The most moving scene in Homer is not the death of the great heroes, Patroclus or Hector, but the tail-wagging of a pet dog, Argos. After 20 years away, 10 fighting the Trojans and 10…

Early in the 20th century, childbirth in America looked very different than what you’ll find in most labor and delivery wards today.  Many hospital births involved “twilight sleep,” a cocktail of drugs that rendered a…

Trillions, as in trillions of dollars, are being bandied about in the way millions were, then billions. But take a look at 1 trillion expressed numerically: 1,000,000,000,000. Awesome, isn’t it? Twelve zeros. The national debt…

As America prepares to celebrate 250 years of kicking butt and taking names, I’m celebrating something that we aren’t kicking: soccer balls. Our victory over the Brits did more than guarantee life, liberty and the…

The World Cup is coming to America. For many observers, that represents soccer’s arrival in the United States. I think it represents something else: the culmination of a transformation that has been underway for half…