Millions of Republicans are struggling with the question of how to vote in November. Not content with the choices offered by either party, they find themselves at a loss as to how to proceed. Some…

In the half-dozen years since the Supreme Court in 2018 effectively allowed legal sports betting in all states, 38 of them and D.C. have to some extent authorized wagering — often with the express purpose…

Kansas policymakers are abuzz about the recent defeat of a sports stadium tax in Jackson County, Mo.  Unfortunately, they’re saying all the wrong things. To paraphrase James Carville, “it’s affordable housing, stupid.” If the tax…

It is common to say “I was heartbroken to hear” that so-and-so died, but I really do feel heartbroken having learned about Alice Munro, who died on Monday. As a writer, she modeled, in her…

Tornados can touch down anywhere. They happen so frequently in Kansas they’ve become part of the lore. We’ve seen them in such art as “Tragic Prelude” in the Kansas Statehouse and the more synonymous film…

Last week, Gov. Laura Kelly made three groups of people plenty mad, likely with some crossover. First, Kelly vetoed a measure Friday that would have recognized “fetal personhood.” The measure ruled that from the moment…

When Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling in April 2023 suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, an abortion pill, Democrats were furious. How could a lone judge in small-town Texas deprive millions of…

A sure sign that you’re living in a dictatorship is that the government dictates what you can sing. That’s now the policy in Hong Kong, er, Little Beijing, as a court has endorsed the government’s…

While TV news was glued last week to Stormy Daniels’ tell-all testimony and pro-Palestinian demonstrations, scant attention was paid to Vladimir Putin’s tsar-like coronation for a fifth term. Nor to his bellicose parade of Russia’s…

If cell phones had been as prevalent as they are today in my mom’s time, she would have kept hers on mute.  I can’t tell you how many times she answered the phone in an…