As recently as 2008 the platform of the Republican Party mentioned climate change 13 times. The GOP acknowledged that the Earth’s warming was caused by human activity, and a commitment was made to reducing the…

Gov. Laura Kelly’s proposal earlier this month to create an independent, nonpartisan redistricting commission is a worthwhile one. We hope that the Legislature approves it next session and takes politics out of the process. Two…

The life of Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple was threatened last week for asking citizens to wear face masks to guard against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The perpetrator warned that unless the city’s public…

Bryan Williams saw danger on the horizon back in February. Williams and his wife, Janice Keller-Williams, own Keller Feed and Wine Co. in downtown Cottonwood Falls, where they serve Southern Italian and soul food half…

For Amy Coney Barrett of the University of Notre Dame, where she and I are both professors, her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court represents the crowning achievement of her legal career. Widely regarded as…

As mayor of Topeka, Michelle De La Isla has worked to not only increase the city’s police department budget but also to strengthen relationships between law enforcement officers and the public they serve. De La…

“In America, the big get bigger and the small get out,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced to a crowd of dairy farmers a year ago. This march toward “progress” has been the steady…

A gaffe, one famous political writer once explained, is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. By that measure, Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle came up with a show-stopper in late September, while speaking to…

State Sen. Barbara Bollier, the Democrat, is the moderate in the race for the U.S. Senate.  That’s because until two years ago, Bollier was a Republican, championing fiscally responsible measures to fund education, build roads…

The cascading global governance, health, economic and environmental crises have exacerbated the food crisis. So it was fitting that an indefatigable international institution dedicated to fighting hunger — the United Nations World Food Program —…