“I’m very much concerned, as I know you are, about what’s being delivered to our children in this country,” said Fred Rogers to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications in May 1969. “We don’t have…

The $4 billion Panasonic battery factory in De Soto should have been a first-of-a-kind project for Kansas and the Midwest.  In addition to the estimated 4,000 new jobs coming to town, Panasonic and the state…

Striking a blow for deadly disease and against public health, our dangerous Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., flanked by doctors including National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya — handpicked for…

Universities that toe the Trump administration’s line need not worry of losing federal funding for academic research, said Education Secretary Linda McMahon Wednesday evening. “Universities should continue to be able to do research as long…

In a ruling heard ’round the world, the U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. This is an important moment for the rule of law as much as for the…

Nayib Bukele’s autocratic tendencies were already clear when he ran for a second term as El Salvador’s president in 2024.  He had extended a “temporary” state of emergency for two years, and used it to…

In 1951, Richard Garwin was 23, a junior physicist working summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the atomic bomb that had decimated Hiroshima six years before.  Edward Teller, Garwin’s older colleague at the…

Right-wingers of Wichita want protesters arrested for chanting “86 47” on Saturday.  In a related story, right-wingers of Wichita have abandoned any pretense of respect for the United States Constitution.  The calls for the arrest…

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling has preserved, at least temporarily, a hallmark of our system of government — the separation of church and state. The vote, deadlocked at 4-4, preserved a ruling by the…

With the filing deadline for seats on local city councils fast approaching — June 2 — it’s time to do some personal inventory. “Do I have gifts that can be of service?” “What do I…