In our mind, we can rest easy from the COVID-19 pandemic when health authorities determine the number of infections is at a manageable point. We’re not there yet. In the past month, Kansas has logged…

It’s hot outside. How hot is it? Hot enough to make us rethink what it means to use energy during these warm months. Earlier this year, as Kansas suffered through a wave of freezing temperatures,…

Companies are leaving Hong Kong now that China has ramped up its oppression. Go figure. Ever since its transfer from the United Kingdom to China in 1997, Hong Kong has billed itself as a bridge…

In targeting America’s second Catholic president with a threat to deny Joe Biden the Eucharist over his abortion rights support, U.S. bishops risk deepening what is already a destructive rift among the nation’s Catholics. It…

On a sunny spring morning in 1995, a 7,000-pound bomb hidden in a Ryder rental truck blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The blast killed 168 people, including 19…

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the personal injury attorneys who became darlings of the right-wing fever swamps by waving guns around at peaceful protesters in St. Louis last year, pleaded guilty last week to misdemeanor charges.…

A tall black metal fence is being erected around the governor’s mansion, Cedar Crest, in Topeka.  The barrier will replace a decorative split rail wood fence. Because Cedar Crest borders a 244-acre park replete with…

The first time the Supreme Court decided an Affordable Care Act case, back in 2012, the result was a historic case with a complicated opinion written by the chief justice. It’s still studied closely in…

So much for quaint notions of bipartisanship. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell this week bluntly admitted what should long have been obvious: He views partisan politics as a zero-sum game in which the only goal…

President Biden’s first summit meeting with Vladimir Putin was preceded by reports of persistent cyberattacks by Russian state and private actors against sensitive U.S. targets and a major Russian military mobilization along the borders of…