At last week’s Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City, we had stopped near Union Station for a few moments and contemplated waiting to see if some of the Chiefs players would be coming that…

For the last 15 years I have anxiously watched the trajectory of Alex Navalny, the Russian dissident who so bravely exposed President Vladimir Putin as the ruthless dictator he is. On Friday morning, Navalny, age…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Look, I happen to believe in prayer, which as all of the rest of you who do, too, know is nothing like asking Santa for Barbie’s pink Corvette.  As my son…

Guns ruin everything.  There’s no nice, nuanced thing to say about the shooting Wednesday at the end of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City.  No “on-one-hand-on-the-other-hand” equivocating about the death and injury and…

Last week, smack in the middle of a series of congressional meltdowns over border security, the Congressional Budget Office dropped the latest edition of its 10-year budget and economic forecast. It’s the kind of report…

Special Counsel Robert K. Hur’s report, in which he declined to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents, also included a much-debated assessment of Mr. Biden’s cognitive abilities. “Mr. Biden would likely present…

If the law doesn’t give you what you want, try intimidation.  That’s the reprehensible tactic that our state’s biggest schoolyard bully, Attorney General Kris Kobach, is using in a dangerous attack on transgender children for…

WASHINGTON — In a career that spans more than half a century, President Joe Biden has long been known all too well for mangling words, names and dates in verbal pratfalls known, perhaps gently, as…

The lazy days of summer can seem unfathomably long on an empty belly.  For health officials, the three-month break from school is a special concern for families that rely on the schools to provide their…

Kansas Sen. Cindy Holscher, a progressive Democrat from Overland Park, sponsors a lot of bills and resolutions that don’t stand a chance of passing our conservative and veto-proof Republican state Legislature.  This year, she’s signed…