For a few years, a major hotel chain ran a series of commercials that I thought were both highly amusing and quite brilliant. A group of tourists were in the control room of a nuclear…

Underpaid for years, Kansas legislators finally received a substantial pay increase this year.  Instead of a paltry per diem (per day) allowance, they now receive $43,000 per year and remain eligible for KPERS benefits. Normally,…

The dollar is meant to be a source of safety. Lately, however, it has been a cause of fear.  Since its peak in mid-January the greenback has fallen by over 9% against a basket of…

Congratulations to Harvard University for fighting back against the Trump administration’s unseemly efforts to use federal dollars to try to exert unwarranted control over higher education.  The oldest and richest college in America wasn’t the…

The landslide victory of the Kansas City Public Schools’ bond issue has prompted lots of local head-scratching.  How did the campaign pull off such a lopsided victory?  There are a few explanations: a smart campaign,…

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has been tapped in the new Congress to join a bipartisan “working group” on the 340B Drug Pricing Program — a title that sounds vague enough to mean anything but important…

Oompa Loompa doompadee-do, we’ve got a tariff puzzle for you: President Trump seems to think border taxes are a Willy Wonka golden ticket for the U.S. economy. But what does it do to America’s artisan…

In the Oval Office Monday, Salvadoran strongman Nayib Bukele and wannabe American strongman Donald Trump sat together and, among other things, explained why Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García, sent illegally to Bukele’s CECOT mega-prison at…

Some 10,000 federal health workers lost their jobs earlier this month — among them, a group of regulators who help new medicines get approved. If Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t…

Last December, I asked my students at Wharton to nominate and vote on topics for our final class. The runaway top choice was leadership lessons from Elon Musk.  It’s become a hot topic among the…