The 2024 Kansas legislative session is about to begin. With the start of each session, there’s a hope that these leaders will come together and provide for a better future for Kansas. Keeping that in…

We tend to look to the new year as a new beginning, as an opportunity for a fresh start. Aspiring for something different, something better, we devise resolutions in hopes of making ourselves healthier, more…

Three years ago more than 2,000 stormed the U.S. Capitol grounds. Their purpose was not to sightsee. I’m choosing my words carefully here.  In the time since Jan. 6, 2021, the sworn testimony of hundreds…

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution for the Kansas Legislature: no more wasting our time and money on election conspiracy theories. In September and October of 2023, Senator Mike Thompson and others hosted hearings featuring speakers peddling…

“Have you ever been convicted of a felony?” is a yes or no question found on an assortment of applications, ranging from jobs to scholarships, that most Americans answer without a second thought. Unfortunately, I’m…

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…