When I filled out the application to be a delegate back in March, the world was a pretty different place. I was not expecting that as a delegate, I would be watching the convention on…

ATLANTA — No vocation cares more about control than coaching football. Before Washington played in a Super Bowl, coach George Allen went so far as to scout the California sun. (His findings: It’s bright.) Yet…

August 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote across the country and enfranchised nearly 50 percent of the U.S. population. A century later, voting is as…

More and taller fences. Metal detectors. Restricted access. Armed guards. Government in most forms — from the White House to local high schools — is a lot less accessible than it used to be. Even…

Kansas has another neighbor expanding Medicaid — and this time, it is different. Last Tuesday, Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment expanding Medicaid by a vote of 53% to 47%. Nebraska voters passed expansion in…

There’s probably not a woman alive who is not — openly or secretly — nervous for Kamala Harris, the third woman to be nominated for the vice-presidency, and the first woman of color. The stakes…

On the one hand, Joe Biden — who is running as the candidate who promises to make the presidency boring again — made the most obvious — that is, boring — selection for his running…

I’m in the history business. No, I cannot claim the title historian. I think that title more accurately belongs to those who hold history degrees and create academic works. I prefer the title storyteller. I…

Reopening Kansas schools this fall is a gamble.  The COVID-19 new infections rate and death rate are still rising at this writing.  Will returning to school-site learning be safe?  Will it increase the spread of…

Call it the trial balloon that launched a thousand punctures. On Thursday morning President Donald Trump tweeted: “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT…