Dear President Carter, I was in my second quarter of college when you returned to Plains, Ga., in January 1981. Ronald Reagan had just been inaugurated, and you came back to your hometown soundly defeated.…

This is one of those days when something happens and you don’t know exactly what it means, but you know it means something.  I woke up Friday to find that Nancy Kassebaum, one of the…

Most of those who watch politics focus on various national and state political contests, and that’s reasonable. Yet how many of us regularly interact with agents of the national or state governments, enforcing those state…

Republican leaders wish people would “stop whining” about the fact that one in three American women now live in states that ban abortion. Bernie Moreno, Ohio’s GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, recently went so…

On Sept. 10, the same day that former President Donald Trump alleged on the debate stage that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating their neighbors’ dogs and cats, a much greater man spoke…

First came bone needles and stone projectile points, then the wheel, then iron and steel, gunpowder, typesetting, and the American Revolution, followed by the steam engine and Civil War. Automobiles showed up next, followed by…

Some deeply consequential decisions are starkly simple. That is how I view our upcoming presidential election. And that is why I have already cast my ballot for character — and voted for Vice President Kamala…

Since the Republican convention and most recently in his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to promote trade tariffs, which are taxes on imported goods, as his economic cure-all for…

A piece of advice for making your vote count this November: Be skeptical of the mail. There are too many signs that the postal system in Kansas and Missouri isn’t working quite as it should.…

My library card is printed with my account number on the back and the words “I Read Banned Books” on the front. I swapped out my old card for this one in 2022, when the…