The sad truth is that Alexei Navalny’s death last week—murder in prison by any other name — has at least for now advanced Vladimir Putin’s autocratic interests by removing a main focus of domestic opposition.…

At last week’s Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City, we had stopped near Union Station for a few moments and contemplated waiting to see if some of the Chiefs players would be coming that…

For the last 15 years I have anxiously watched the trajectory of Alex Navalny, the Russian dissident who so bravely exposed President Vladimir Putin as the ruthless dictator he is. On Friday morning, Navalny, age…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Look, I happen to believe in prayer, which as all of the rest of you who do, too, know is nothing like asking Santa for Barbie’s pink Corvette.  As my son…

Kansas lobbyists get a bad rap. After all, they’re paid to push special interests in the esteemed halls of governments. Lobbyists grease the wheels of those with deep pockets, such as energy giants, pharmaceuticals,  and…

Guns ruin everything.  There’s no nice, nuanced thing to say about the shooting Wednesday at the end of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City.  No “on-one-hand-on-the-other-hand” equivocating about the death and injury and…

The glimmer of hope that Congress might pass a bipartisan border-security bill has been extinguished, at least for now. In killing immigration reforms that their party has long supported — and that are now far…

Last week, smack in the middle of a series of congressional meltdowns over border security, the Congressional Budget Office dropped the latest edition of its 10-year budget and economic forecast. It’s the kind of report…

Special Counsel Robert K. Hur’s report, in which he declined to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents, also included a much-debated assessment of Mr. Biden’s cognitive abilities. “Mr. Biden would likely present…

Rep. Michael Gallagher’s decision not to seek re-election this year is understandable from a personal point of view. But it’s also another dispiriting sign of the decline of Congress as a place where people of…