On Friday, Republican leaders once again rebuffed Gov. Laura Kelly’s efforts to find common ground in order to expand the state’s Medicaid health insurance program. Kelly’s new plan, her sixth, even agreed to Republicans’ long-held…

My happiest Christmas memories take the form of snapshots, or the briefest of video clips, though in most cases no actual photographic documentation exists. Even when I study on them, even when I work in…

I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but there’s widespread voting fraud going on in Kansas as you read this.  I’m speaking, of course, of the online polling to pick…

History provides many painful examples of authoritarians who caused their perceived enemies to disappear, from Stalin’s gulag to Argentina’s dirty war and Mexican drug cartels’ violence. The disappearance of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny…

It took nearly three decades, but world leaders this week finally acknowledged the obvious: There is no way to slow climate change without winding down fossil fuels. The agreement reached Wednesday by nearly 200 nations…

A little after 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, a man stabbed three children and a woman outside a primary school in downtown Dublin. The woman and one of the children, a 5-year-old girl, were seriously…

We thought Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would be wary of declaring victory over inflation on Wednesday, but he was wary in formal declaration only. Everything else about his press conference after the latest Federal…

Kansas Supreme Court Justices now say they hope to restore most functions of the state’s court computer system, shut down for nearly two months by an “evil, criminal” cyberattack, by the end of this month.…

Dan Savage, the sex columnist, has said that in order to remain in love for the long haul, we need to establish a shared myth. The myth we create allows us to create an image…

The Justice Department has strong criminal cases against Hunter Biden for allegedly failing to pay federal taxes, claiming false deductions and lying about his drug use on paperwork to buy a gun.  Congress, by contrast,…