On Friday, Republican leaders once again rebuffed Gov. Laura Kelly’s efforts to find common ground in order to expand the state’s Medicaid health insurance program. Kelly’s new plan, her sixth, even agreed to Republicans’ long-held…

History provides many painful examples of authoritarians who caused their perceived enemies to disappear, from Stalin’s gulag to Argentina’s dirty war and Mexican drug cartels’ violence. The disappearance of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny…

It took nearly three decades, but world leaders this week finally acknowledged the obvious: There is no way to slow climate change without winding down fossil fuels. The agreement reached Wednesday by nearly 200 nations…

We thought Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would be wary of declaring victory over inflation on Wednesday, but he was wary in formal declaration only. Everything else about his press conference after the latest Federal…

Kansas Supreme Court Justices now say they hope to restore most functions of the state’s court computer system, shut down for nearly two months by an “evil, criminal” cyberattack, by the end of this month.…

The Justice Department has strong criminal cases against Hunter Biden for allegedly failing to pay federal taxes, claiming false deductions and lying about his drug use on paperwork to buy a gun.  Congress, by contrast,…

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas-Fort Worth married mother of two, might die. She’s not recovering from some tragic accident, nor does she have some kind of untreatable ailment. The best path to her health is…

With the national debt at $33 trillion and counting, and the economy on a slow-growth trajectory, economic policy-making should be at a premium on Capitol Hill. Yet Republicans are losing another lawmaker who’s serious about…

After a tenuous few days of calm during the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, the fighting has started anew in Gaza, with Hamas firing rockets and Israel responding with airstrikes. It’s not clear…

For the first time since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he looks as if he could win. Russia’s president has put his country on a war footing and strengthened his grip on…