There is mayhem in the Middle East. In Gaza 2 million war-battered civilians are at risk of famine. Attacks on cargo ships by the Houthis threaten world trade. Israel’s northern border is tense after the…

Good news: The U.S. military isn’t packed with violent extremists. That’s the gist of a new report commissioned by the Pentagon in 2021 and released quietly with little notice in December. The result won’t surprise…

By all accounts, the Kansas economy is booming. Kansas leads the nation with a 9.7 percent increase in production of goods and services for the economy’s third quarter, almost double the nation’s overall increase of…

Earlier this past summer, in the ACLU of Kansas’ report about the historical and social significance of the Quindaro settlement, we talked about the aspirational Kansas we fear too many residents here have forgotten. Kansas…

Saudi Arabia and Israel have quietly been negotiating a peace deal that would be greased with a U.S.-Saudi defense treaty. So why is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman putting that at risk by joining…

Come Jan. 8, the Kansas legislature will assemble to embark on its new agenda for the year. Already, numerous bills and resolutions have been pre-filed for the 2024 session, providing us with a preliminary insight…

When I was on meth, I was busy. Very busy. There was gardening to do, color-coding the closet, taking apart doorknobs, trying to put doorknobs back together and trips to Home Depot at 3 a.m.…

“If it bleeds it leads,” is a time-tested, and unfortunate, truism in the news industry. Try as we might to cast the area in a positive light, the Register’s most-read stories for 2023 involved car…

Ignore Scrooge. Reject the Grinch. Believe. There really are Christmas miracles. My own personal miracle began 44 years ago Dec. 20. Drunk as a prairie skunk, I walked through the doors of St. John’s Hospital…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is up to it again, signing an unlawful new state law to make crossing into the country illegally a state misdemeanor. We don’t expect it to last much beyond when the…