Republican leaders wish people would “stop whining” about the fact that one in three American women now live in states that ban abortion. Bernie Moreno, Ohio’s GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, recently went so…

On Sept. 10, the same day that former President Donald Trump alleged on the debate stage that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating their neighbors’ dogs and cats, a much greater man spoke…

First came bone needles and stone projectile points, then the wheel, then iron and steel, gunpowder, typesetting, and the American Revolution, followed by the steam engine and Civil War. Automobiles showed up next, followed by…

Some deeply consequential decisions are starkly simple. That is how I view our upcoming presidential election. And that is why I have already cast my ballot for character — and voted for Vice President Kamala…

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 &…

Since the Republican convention and most recently in his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to promote trade tariffs, which are taxes on imported goods, as his economic cure-all for…

A piece of advice for making your vote count this November: Be skeptical of the mail. There are too many signs that the postal system in Kansas and Missouri isn’t working quite as it should.…

My library card is printed with my account number on the back and the words “I Read Banned Books” on the front. I swapped out my old card for this one in 2022, when the…

Over a decade ago, when political parties didn’t treat their rivals as mortal enemies, the Republican president of the Florida Senate, Jeff Atwater, would remind his colleagues: “Don’t fear the debate.” I remember them as…

This month, a brief, ambitious and many would say calamitous experiment came to an end: Oregon rolled back Measure 110, its policy decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Rather than handing out…