According to a national study published by the American Medical Association last month, 65% of Kansas children have elevated levels of lead in their blood — 15 points higher than the national average. There is…

Dear fellow parents: Please get your kids vaccinated. I’m doing so this week. As a pediatrician at Duke Health, I’ve seen many children and families suffer from COVID-19 over the last 20 months. The parents…

In 1989, when I was 4 years old, I arrived in the United States, along with my mother and brother. After spending the first seven months of my childhood in U.S. detention, I lived undocumented…

Say what you like about Congress’ squabbling and eternally disarrayed Democrats; they’ve showed in the last few weeks that they deserve to be recognized as the party of ideas. And not just a few ideas;…

In his three years at the helm of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, director Dan Kays is thankful that he naturally wakes up on the sunny side of the bed.  In the first year in…

The U.S. economy was weaker than expected in the third quarter, which is bad news for any American whose livelihood depends on strong economic growth and especially disappointing for the White House, which is struggling…

Even as he is surrounded by loving friends and family, actor Alec Baldwin may well feel all alone in the world. In a split second, he learned how capricious life can be, and how we…

The congressional testimony of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed that it was always unrealistic to expect that the social media behemoth would ever police itself or place progress over profit. Now, following Haugen, Sophie Zhang…

 Country over party. With unflinching firmness, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming has chosen to take her stand for democracy and the Constitution over the cult of Donald Trump that is now the Republican Party. For…

The debt ceiling debate in Washington seems distant from average Kansans, but it affects your finances more than you think.  The debt ceiling is the limit on the amount of money the federal government can…