ROME — When he meets with Pope Francis today, the United States’ top diplomat will try to avoid the elephant in the room. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken intends to speak to the pontiff…

Sometimes the Supreme Court protects constitutional rights best when it doesn’t establish what lawyers call a bright-line rule applicable to every possible future situation. That was the case Wednesday when the court ruled in favor…

Workers in a range of professions are experiencing what has come to be known as COVID burnout, characterized by a lack of motivation, fatigue, depression or isolation. After an intensive year of war against a…

The Olympic Games oath, in which a representative of the host country promises on behalf of all athletes to compete honorably, closes with the aspiration: “To make the world a better place through sport.” There…

“Drowning machines.” That’s the term boating experts have given to the type of small dam that claimed the lives of at least four people who were riding tubes along the Dan River Wednesday near the…

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…