What do we stand to gain from a weaker Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center? The answer, of course, is very little. Recent coverage of the nonprofit’s executive compensation structure has drawn warranted scrutiny. It’s a…

It’s hard to imagine us complaining about tourists crowding our favorite haunts. Maybe once the Lehigh Portland State Park gets in full swing, we’ll see longer lines at restaurants and gas stations. Hope so. It’d…

It’s an irony that the minerals needed to save the planet may help destroy it.  Rare earth elements, the mineral backbones of wind turbines and electric vehicles, are now the prize in a geopolitical arms…

I never expected to go on Medicaid. I grew up in a comfortable household, had worked since high school, and was a generally healthy 24-year-old public policy graduate student. I also never expected the stubborn…

In coming weeks, our news feeds will be loaded with stories on the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the nation’s Medicaid program. Already, we’ve heard stories about non-U.S. citizens…

If you’re confused about the Trump Administration’s mass deportation policy, join the club. First it was the full Stephen Miller, deporting every illegal in the land. Then there was going to be a reprieve for…

I’m going to tell you how the people in charge of my country made the truth a crime. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s longtime president, has spent about three decades destroying our country’s fragile democratic institutions: elections,…

People have been writing Thom Tillis’s political obituary for more than a decade. When he pushed against President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. When he backed red flag laws. When he voted to codify same-sex marriage.…

Writing the obituary of a loved one usually comes at a bad time. Which is unfortunate, considering it’s one of the most-read items in the Register and is preserved in perpetuity in the archives of…

The Big Beautiful Bill, currently being considered by the United States Senate is anything but beautiful.   The proposed harms to people are many, jeopardizing millions of Americans’ access to Medicaid, food assistance, higher education…