In its current state, a bill before the Kansas legislature to help at-risk students might actually put at-risk students at greater risk. More opportunities for low income students who are behind academically is something virtually…

When President Joe Biden agreed with a newscaster that Vladimir Putin was “a killer,” I initially thought it a tactical error. Not that the Russian leader isn’t a killer, having sent agents to murder dissidents…

I’ve come to accept that every year Kansas legislators will debate four topics — abortion, the expansion of Medicaid, gun violence, and voting rights — no matter what else is going on in the world.…

 Sometime this spring, in an attempt to do something — anything — on gun control, the U.S. Senate will revive a bill that would require people who buy guns from unlicensed dealers to undergo federal…

As a journalist, I appreciate President Joe Biden’s respect for the profession.  No more accusations of being “the enemy of the people” or purposefully producing “fake news.” On Thursday, the president gave his first full-fledged…

Last month, I had a visitor to my office here at Friends University in Wichita. I knew who he was–he’s written and called me before–but this was the first time we’d met in person. It…

The ugly verbal spat between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and top Chinese officials who met last Thursday in Anchorage, Alaska, laid bare the future of U.S.-China relations. Most astonishing was that, propelled by Blinken,…

Millions of elderly Americans are still hunting for appointments to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Millions of younger Americans are waiting impatiently for their turn in line. But there’s one group whose members are far more…

Anyone who wondered, during this past annus horribilis, whether many Americans no longer grasped the meaning of democracy, could find plenty of stats to back that dismal conclusion. In 2018 only around a third of…

I can understand President Joe Biden putting Americans first in getting vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. And I really appreciate his efforts to ramp up vaccine production through the Merck and Johnson & Johnson partnership.…