Most of us fail the marshmallow challenge. Even if we know there’s a greater reward for denying ourselves two sweets instead of one, we say, “why wait?” That can be a problem. Deferring immediate gratification…

Donald Trump deserves the legal scrutiny he’s getting — which has come from many corners on many counts. Yet of the long list of alleged violations, the likely charges on which a grand jury in…

If passed into law, can Education Saving Accounts and tax credit vouchers withstand a constitutional challenge? That’s a question rolling around the Kansas Capitol.  The concern, at this point, is speculation since these two school…

The green revolution was one of the greatest feats of human ingenuity. By promoting higher-yielding varieties of wheat and, especially, rice, plant-breeders in India, Mexico and the Philippines helped China emerge from a famine and…

Nashville is grieving, broken and angry. Citizens feel powerless and we have so many questions about why the fatal shooting at The Covenant School on Monday happened. There are no words that can adequately capture…

It’s a now-taken-for-granted miracle that each year in these United States, more than 40,000 people have many healthy years added to their lives by getting new kidneys, livers, hearts and, in rare cases, lungs. That’s…

Suddenly lawmakers in several states are rushing to relax child labor laws to make it easier for teenagers to work longer hours, later hours and more dangerous jobs. In Arkansas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed…

Monday morning, the Kansas Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases testing the limits of abortion rights. It did not appear to go well for the state’s attorney who sought to undermine a woman’s right…

As we near the end of the Kansas Legislative session it strikes me how different our state could be with different legislative leadership.  I don’t like to be partisan, however, it is important to point…

For many years, it was good to be inclusive, by which I mean it was good to appreciate diversity and to acknowledge cultural biases. Now, it could become illegal. Arizona’s Senate passed legislation that would…