Recycling in Iola, or in Allen County for that matter, should not depend solely on volunteers. As proven, it’s not reliable (no offense, you amazing people.) Enthusiasm wanes, schedules get busy, new hands need to…

Hard to believe, but Donald Trump is giving U.S. companies a reason to think Kamala Harris might be better for their business. On Monday he gave her an assist by threatening tariffs on Deere &…

What ails Europe? The European Union’s gross domestic product per person last year added up to only about 73 percent of America’s, accounting for differences in purchasing power. This is down in real terms from…

The new National Football League season will see plenty of records set on the field — and it’s expected to hit new heights off the field, too: specifically, the American Gaming Association projects that legal…

Another chilling security threat, another collective sigh of relief — and a stroke of good fortune: an alert Secret Service agent who spotted the barrel of a gun in the bushes and fired his own…

House Speaker Mike Johnson has continued the proud tradition of GOP speakers setting the country on course to another disastrous government shutdown by pulling voting on a temporary spending bill that included the nonstarter SAVE…

The failure of another assassination attempt against Donald Trump on Sunday, the second in two months, is a great relief but also another warning about our deranged politics. The facts are still unfolding as we…

At the close of his 1980 debate against President Jimmy Carter, Republican nominee Ronald Reagan asked the immortal question that still frames presidential election economic debates: “Are you better off than you were four years…

The two candidates in Tuesday’s presidential debate walked onto the stage with dueling imperatives. Kamala Harris needed to show voters who she is: her character, her record and, most important, her vision. Donald Trump needed…

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debated each other with the skill, knowledge and dignity befitting a great democracy on Tuesday — well, at least they appeared on stage together. Americans were able to see the…