The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority deemed the boost that universities give some applicants purely on the basis of their ethnicity or…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has faced down the biggest threat his regime has confronted in more than two decades in power. For now. As details about the dramatic mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin — the…

As a teenager, I idealized my Grandparents Lynn’s desert lifestyle outside of Tucson, Ariz. Little did I know that in 50 years, southeast Kansas would be its rival. Boy, are we baking. My grandparents taught…

There’s a mayoral election taking place in Wichita, Kansas’s largest stand-alone city, right now. Also, strikes have been declared at Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita’s largest single employer, and Ascension Via Christi, the city’s largest hospital. What…

Russia said this spring that it would send tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, and on Tuesday President Alexander Lukashenko said he has received some of them. This development is another escalation by Vladimir Putin and…

The last pretense of Vladimir Putin to be, as he imagines, one of his nation’s historic rulers was stripped away on June 24. A band of armed mercenaries swept through his country almost unopposed, covering…

No, state legislatures do not have almost unchecked authority regarding federal elections; state courts are empowered to decide whether the district lines legislators draw and the voting laws they write are consistent with state constitutions…

Exactly one year after the first laboratory-confirmed case of Covid-19 was identified in the United States, I began my tenure as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the time,…

Over the next 18 months, the state of Kansas will have an opportunity to improve the health of Kansans. Taking advantage of this opportunity will not require passing legislation. Instead, it will require the state…

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo and the…