It’s not often government implements a tax, then gives you a loophole to avoid paying it. But that’s exactly what the Missouri Legislature did when crafting compromises to get the state’s new gas tax legislation…

President Joe Biden’s administration could soon have its foreign policy mettle tested like never before as China boosts its military aggression against Taiwan while proceeding with its naval expansion into the South China Sea. If…

When Democrats failed last week to call a vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, many took it as a sign his agenda was doomed. After all, if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi couldn’t…

The Orange County coastline has become the latest casualty of the nation’s unhealthy dependence on oil. In one of the biggest California spills in decades, a pipeline connected to an offshoot oil platform off the…

Ford Motor Co.’s decision to take its $11.4 billion electric vehicle investment and 11,000 jobs to the mid-South should jar Michigan to the reality that it’s unprepared to achieve its dreams of dominating the automotive…

Months into the pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly instituted a somber tradition, which we repeated on Monday. “It is with great sadness that, for the sixth time ….  I am ordering flags to half-staff to honor…

Mark your calendars. Oct. 18, which will be here before we know it, just two weeks from Monday, is the day when our nation will no longer be able to pay its bills. Though this…

After nearly five years, someone and something is still causing serious injury to U.S. officials abroad. The source of “Havana syndrome,” first detected in Cuba in late 2016, has not been identified nor attributed. The…

Journey with us, if you will, all the way back to August 2019. In a budget deal passed by Congress and signed by President Trump, Washington suspended the U.S. debt limit for two years —…

Topeka’s White Lakes Mall is coming down. A time-worn eyesore, it’s past due. That the city has to cough up an estimated $2 million in demolition fees doesn’t sit well, of course. But the location…