Almost a year later, we could still smell the stench of charred wood. Our hands came away black from even the slightest contact. What was once a familiar landscape, felt foreign. Instead of walking among…

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio went the full Macron on Tuesday, and God bless him for being the first American leader to demand proof of vaccination for patrons to enter the city’s indoor establishments…

As calls for the Food and Drug Administration to fully approve COVID-19 vaccines grow louder, the agency itself has little to say. This is a mistake. The agency insists it is “working as quickly as…

Wipe the docket clean, judges. Disgruntled parents come first. Clear your schedule, school board members. You’ve got some unhappy students. Don’t think about enacting public safety measures, county commissioners. It could get you sued. All…

Among the many debatable issues around Covid-19 is one unassailable fact: The coronavirus is nonpartisan. It makes no judgment about one’s political leanings. The vaccines that were developed to fight this virus have no political…

The blight of industrial-scale old-growth logging in Alaska is about to end. And it couldn’t have happened soon enough. And, in fact, it didn’t happen soon enough. The Biden administration recently announced sweeping protections for…

Missourians have spoken — they want Medicaid expansion. The courts have spoken — Missouri must open Medicaid to an estimated 275,000 more of our neighbors who need help. Lawmakers, worried about the cost, have argued…

With schools set to resume in just a few weeks, Rebecca Johnson, director of the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, is in panic mode. The COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere close to being eradicated and even…

Anybody who remembers the 1970s remembers the Great Inflation, when retirees on fixed incomes struggled to make ends meet. They probably also remember what happened next, when the Federal Reserve under Paul Volker tightened the…

Hilary Garrett is much like thousands of other students at Kansas State University. But unlike most, who don’t worry about how to get from here to there, she has to negotiate the campus using a…