To all the other security risks in the world, you can add the return of Islamic State as a killing machine. Russians were the victims on Friday as gunmen attacked civilians at a Moscow concert…

A few hours after Russia vetoed a carefully crafted and comprehensive resolution at the UN Security Council table in New York for an “immediate and sustained ceasefire” in Gaza because the Kremlin didn’t want to…

Expanding Medicaid in Kansas will never have a chance as long as untruths are allowed to pass as truths. For example: “I do look at this as Medicaid Expansion as socialized medicine, and the United…

When my wife and I went to vote last Tuesday, the polling station was nearly empty. One of the election workers told me it was the least busy election she’d ever seen, and as a…

Congress looks poised to avoid a futile government shutdown and more political melodrama, which is no small miracle in narrowly divided Washington. House Speaker Mike Johnson deserves credit for cutting a deal to fund the…

Last summer, the film “Oppenheimer” swept the box office and helped reignite public discourse about nuclear weapons and the ever-present threat of their use.  It’s perhaps inevitable that the movie, which dramatizes the United States’…

American women are thought to have more abortions today than they did before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.  The main reason is probably abortion pills. Safe and effective, cheap and convenient,…

It’s not unusual to see homeless people drifting outside of businesses, lingering near public transportation, sleeping under bridges, or camping in city parks. Often, we look away. But sometimes we pause and consider what in…

Something momentous just surfaced in the evolving relationship between the U.S. and Israel: a credible attempt to reintroduce nuance into one of the many debates corrupted by hyper-partisan polarization in both countries. More than just…

BERLIN (AP) — When Sabine Thonke joined a recent demonstration in Berlin against Germany’s far-right party, it was the first time in years she felt hopeful that the growing power of the extremists in her…