The new National Football League season will see plenty of records set on the field — and it’s expected to hit new heights off the field, too: specifically, the American Gaming Association projects that legal…

After every shooting, blame and rationalizations fly. I know, because I was shot in the head at a 2011 congressional event near my home in Tucson, Ariz. Eighteen other people were shot at that event,…

Another chilling security threat, another collective sigh of relief — and a stroke of good fortune: an alert Secret Service agent who spotted the barrel of a gun in the bushes and fired his own…

Near the end of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Lawrence City Commission, a man in a jester’s hat approached the speaker’s podium with a smile on his face.  The room was tense.  “Public comment time?”…

House Speaker Mike Johnson has continued the proud tradition of GOP speakers setting the country on course to another disastrous government shutdown by pulling voting on a temporary spending bill that included the nonstarter SAVE…

The failure of another assassination attempt against Donald Trump on Sunday, the second in two months, is a great relief but also another warning about our deranged politics. The facts are still unfolding as we…

It is late August, and I’m standing in the beautiful Place de la Concorde in Paris trying to plug an Ethernet cable into my camera. The sun is bright, and I can feel the excitement…

At the close of his 1980 debate against President Jimmy Carter, Republican nominee Ronald Reagan asked the immortal question that still frames presidential election economic debates: “Are you better off than you were four years…

Debate Night in America was a big night for Kansas — Donald Trump called us liberal and our most famous resident’s even more-famous girlfriend jumped in and endorsed Kamala Harris.  It was a not-bad night…

While the 2024 presidential election may be more than a month and half away, it is time for Kansans to make a voting plan and check their voter registration status. This is because Kansas has…