The two candidates in Tuesday’s presidential debate walked onto the stage with dueling imperatives. Kamala Harris needed to show voters who she is: her character, her record and, most important, her vision. Donald Trump needed…

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debated each other with the skill, knowledge and dignity befitting a great democracy on Tuesday — well, at least they appeared on stage together. Americans were able to see the…

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…