A candidate for president of the United States recently said: “wokeness is a virus that is more dangerous than any pandemic.” Other politicians claimed that wokeness caused the collapse of more than one bank, with…

Surveys of pediatricians show that a great majority believe educating families about safe firearm storage is a natural extension of health care, yet less than half actually do it. Why not? Because it takes extra…

We’re almost to the All-Star Game, the halfway point of the Major League Baseball season. In my mind, we can already draw two conclusions. One is disheartening: the Royals’ season is over. The boys in…

It has been nearly 40 years since Congress was able to find common ground on the future of Social Security. While millions of people depend on the system as a lifeline, politicians have done little…

America’s armed services are failing to meet their recruiting goals, with the Army in particular suffering the worst shortfalls in five decades. There are many reasons behind this, but one is very surprising: veterans themselves.…

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby sounded off last week, focusing his ire on the Federal Aviation Administration after thunderstorms were deemed the cause of the cancellation of thousands of U.S. flights last Sunday, Monday and…

Federal awards to states for expanding broadband access are out, and U.S. senators are rushing to brag about the money their states will receive, including those like Texas Republican John Cornyn and others who opposed…

As a teenager, I idealized my Grandparents Lynn’s desert lifestyle outside of Tucson, Ariz. Little did I know that in 50 years, southeast Kansas would be its rival. Boy, are we baking. My grandparents taught…

There’s a mayoral election taking place in Wichita, Kansas’s largest stand-alone city, right now. Also, strikes have been declared at Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita’s largest single employer, and Ascension Via Christi, the city’s largest hospital. What…

Exactly one year after the first laboratory-confirmed case of Covid-19 was identified in the United States, I began my tenure as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the time,…