In Kansas, you can parent your children any way you like.  Just so long as you do that parenting like a conservative Republican.  That’s the message coming from Topeka these days, anyway. Just a few…

As cars go electric and get more technologically advanced, their interiors are increasingly being built around prominent dashboard touch screens. Nearly every automaker has been moving controls for windshield wipers, headlights, air conditioning, gear selection…

In my few years on the periphery of Kansas political life, I had the opportunity to work on a governor’s staff, to be a legislative assistant to the speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives…

Walking across the parking lot coming from Aldi, where I had picked up food for the next few days, my heart was struggling. It was sunny and warm, and I was wearing a sundress and…

NBC made the right decision in reversing course on hiring former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel to be a regular contributor. McDaniel’s support for Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen from…

Wagon wheel impressions still mark the earth of the western Kansas prairie, where, beginning in 1877, Black former slaves journeyed across the plains. Those ruts, a physical reminder of the former slaves’ brave and challenging…

While every member of Kansas’ congressional delegation has now made the taxpayer-funded trip to the U.S.-Mexico border to decry an influx of people from outside this country, they should be going to our local supermarkets…

July 26, 2023, is a day I will never forget. It’s the day my daughter, Reagan, went into cardiac arrest at the Sunflower State Games at Washburn University. During the game, Reagan came out of…

The debate over implementing a flat income tax in Kansas appears to have reached its conclusion, at least in this legislative session. Earlier this year, Kansas Republicans proposed a single income tax rate of 5.25%…

The same day in 2007 that founder Steve Jobs of Apple Computer presented the company’s fancy new mobile telephone, the iPhone, he dropped the word “computer” from the corporation’s name. On this, like many things,…