President Trump won the Presidency a second time by promising working-class voters he’d lift their real incomes. Which makes it all the more puzzling that he’s so intent on imposing tariffs that will punish those…

For many years, while China strategically secured minerals from around the world, the United States rarely used foreign policy to obtain the minerals it needs. That has finally changed — and dramatically so.  Within the…

“This is one of the rudest audiences I’ve ever encountered,” said Sen. Roger Marshall in, of all places, Oakley, Kan. Primarily elderly veterans and farmers attended the Saturday morning forum. And no, as Marshall’s staff…

With his first weeks back in office, and especially after Friday’s Oval Office brawling with Ukraine’s president, it’s clear President Trump has designs for a new world order. Perhaps he could share this vision with…

It’s been more slash and burn this week. When President Donald Trump took office 2.3 million federal employees kept the wheels turning, about the same as the late 1960s, even though the country’s population has…

This legislative session, Kansas legislators are considering whether to restrict what low-income households can buy with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Specifically, Senate Bill 79 requests authorization from the federal government to prohibit…

In March 2020, President Donald Trump nominated Gen. Charles Q. Brown to be chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. After Brown, a San Antonio native, was unanimously confirmed by the U.S Senate, Trump…

I went to a meeting of the League of Women Voters earlier this week.  I came away thinking that if things go the way I expect they’re going, they might need to change their name…

The Greatest Generation came home proudly in 1945 from World War II. They were victorious, both in Europe and North Africa, and with a string of awful battles on Pacific islands as they moved toward…

Businesses breathed a sigh of relief after President Trump gave Mexico and Canada a 30-day reprieve from his threatened 25% tariffs. But on Monday he said he is “going forward” with the tariffs next week.…