History will record this as the week the GOP formally kowtowed to Vladimir Putin. This was the week when otherwise sane Republicans, who’d spent months drafting a bipartisan Senate bill that linked major border reforms…

It always helps to have nefarious targets — imaginary or not — to help spur action. China and Mexico, always convenient bogeymen for Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, are in the spotlight once again. This…

Contrary to the popular refrain, video never really did kill the radio star. Electric vehicles, however, might do the job. The question is whether Congress should accelerate the process. Automakers, including BMW, Mazda, Volkswagen and…

Everybody loves a tax cut. But timing matters.  Democrats and Republicans in the Kansas Legislature both brought big tax-slashing plans to Topeka this year. GOP leaders have been pushing a proposal centered around a so-called…

Dear editor, For years, I have volunteered for things to make Iola better, but it wasn’t until last year that I responded to the request from Iola Elementary School librarians to read to first-grade students…

The Republican Party should take yes for an answer. By torpedoing the Senate’s bipartisan immigration deal, under pressure from former president Donald Trump to preserve his election-year advantage on a wedge issue, congressional Republicans would…

I so wish my mother were alive today. She would be proudly sporting a bright gold shirt with No. 22 emblazoned across her chest, and we would be sitting side by side at every possible…

Well, Kansas sure picked a heck of a year to bring back presidential primary elections.  On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump has already steamrolled pretty much all comers, and former South Carolina governor…

I’ve been following the fate of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph over the past weeks.  The 168-year-old publication is at a crossroads. Its owners, the billionaire Barclay family, agreed to sell the newspaper to…

At some point in our lives we all have the urge to rewrite history. “The dog ate it,” revision starts early. And if not tempered by a healthy conscience can get dangerously out of hand.…