Borrowing is expensive again, as anyone who has tried to buy a car or home lately can tell you. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds, the benchmark for home loans, is hovering around 4.75%,…

Even 72 hours after it started, the bloodbath perpetrated against Israel by Hamas — the death toll is 900 and rising — retains its power to shock. If anything, the sheer criminality of the largest…

The state of Kansas is flush with cash. Gov. Laura Kelly announced last week that the Department of Revenue took in $42 million more in taxes during September than officials originally expected — a total…

New York City mayor Eric Adams wrapped up a four-day visit to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia this weekend. While abroad, Adams praised his hometown’s “Empire State of Mind” and promoted the Big Apple as a…

It is hard to see past the shock of Hamas’s bloodthirsty assault on Israel. That is because it involved thousands of rockets, and fighters attacking the south of the country by land, sea and air.…

Oftentimes, it takes getting away to get a closer perspective of home. Or yourself. Such is the case with a trip my husband, Brian, and I recently took to Ireland with local friends Nancy and…

Tuesday’s ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was a spectacular exercise in Republican masochism, and some in the party are increasingly confused about national defense too. To wit, since when do Republicans oppose shoring up…

What draws us to rural Kansas, and what keeps us here? Ask around, and inevitably one hears a variation on a theme: It’s beautiful.  The rolling hills, big skies, hidden creeks. The way the cottonwoods…

“Well, I made history, didn’t I,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy quipped Tuesday after becoming the first speaker of the House voted out of the office. Perhaps the only upside for the nation’s suddenly destabilized legislative branch…

Take a guess: How much Kansas land does China own?  It’s probably not a lot — you probably would have heard something about it if so — but it can’t be nothing, right? American right-wingers…