Early Thursday morning, I became the first sitting governor of a U.S. state to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in 2022. Many Americans — especially my fellow Republicans — may wonder what possessed…

Cellphones and guns got mixed up together in a curious way last week after the school shooting in Georgia, which left two students and two teachers dead. In fact, the shooting may represent a setback…

The bar  couldn’t be set higher for Vice President Kamala Harris at Tuesday night’s presidential debate. Not only must she make a favorable, yet imposing; joyful yet deadly serious; thoughtful yet tough first impression for…

A common complaint about presidential debates is that they change few minds. This year, with anywhere between 3% and 6% of likely voters undecided in early September and the closeness of the race, especially in…

It was every parent’s nightmare — news Wednesday morning of a lockdown at Apalachee High School turned into reports of gunfire, then injuries, then deaths.  As of Wednesday afternoon, four people at the Winder high…

Last week, Kansas politics was rocked by scandal. Policymakers must respond with carefully-crafted policy change, not knee-jerk reactions that could derail the efforts of Kansans working to rebuild their lives. The late Jonathan Clayton’s truck…

Grieving families gathered at Arlington National Cemetery last week to commemorate the third anniversary of a terrorist attack in Afghanistan that took the lives of 13 brave American troops. What was supposed to be a…

Here’s my advice: Don’t fall and fracture your pelvis, OK? If you ignore this ancient wisdom, though, as I did recently, you may get the chance to see the sun come up every morning from…

It is my hope to put to rest the mistaken belief that Great Lakes water, now, or at any point in the future, will be used to solve the water woes of the western United…

The National Football League changes its rulebook from time to time, sometimes to clarify rules, such as pass interference (whatever that is, really), or to make the game safer or more exciting. But last week,…