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It seems like just yesterday we were arguing over who’s fault it is that we’re paying a dollar more for gas; whether we should be allowed to bet on sports; whether teachers should have to…

The overwhelming vastness of the famed National Cathedral seemed to shrink to mere expansiveness, as Washington’s famous names, including three presidents, filled its pews Wednesday morning to honor yet another eminent insider with yet another…

In her important new book about Sandy Hook and the noxious years-long crusade that conspiracy-monger Alex Jones orchestrated against the families of 20 first-graders slaughtered in their classrooms on a December morning, Elizabeth Williamson echoes…

Even though our children finished high school years ago and are now married and living at a distance, my wife and I still get invited to many high school graduation parties every spring. Although I…

Rep. Cheryl Helmer gave the game away Monday. As the Kansas Legislature wrangled over Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of an anti-trans sports bill, the Reflector revealed Helmer’s hateful email to a University of Kansas graduate…

Republicans in the Kansas House of Representatives hate Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly more than they want to help their constituents. That’s the only conclusion after Tuesday’s morally degraded vote, when House members voted 48-74 against…

My family moved 11 times during the 12 years my dad was in the Marine Corps. After he left active duty, we returned to the civilian world, settling in the Baltimore area. Life after the…

Everybody knows that the redistricting map the state Legislature drew for Kansas’ congressional districts only ever had two real goals: Get rid of Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and ensure that no non-Republican could be elected…

More than 5 million people have fled Ukraine since Moscow’s brutal invasion began, the United Nations reported last week. I wonder how many of the children forced from their homes — some escaping by train, others on foot — will see their…

There are no civilian flights into Ukraine, so he flew into Poland and crossed the border with a local doctor from Lviv who doubles as a long-distance ambulance driver. Lviv, a city of 700,000, is…