On Thursday, the Kansas Senate voted to lower the legal age to carry a concealed weapon from 21 to 18. In reality it may not make a whit of difference. Kansas 18-year-olds already have the…

You might have heard about “ballot harvesting” recently. Kansas politicians are trying to restrict the practice, and some have linked it to baseless suggestions of election fraud in our state.  What is ballot harvesting anyway? …

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…