My good friends know that my end is near. Several of them have flown from far away to see me in Texas. They come for an hour or two of conversation, and then they fly…

Next term will be agonizing for the Supreme Court. Some combination of voters and courts will determine whether Donald Trump becomes president again and whether he goes to prison. President Joe Biden’s son has a…

Once again, House Republicans are putting themselves in an impossible position. This time it’s over President Joe Biden’s request for $40 billion in emergency spending for Ukraine, disaster relief, border security and other priorities popular…

The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice decision decriminalizing abortion last week is a landmark ruling in a country that has historically outlawed the procedure with harsh penalties for the women who sought it and the…

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, the highest-ranking and most senior commander in the nation’s armed forces, is scheduled to retire at the end of the month. What happens then is…

The purpose of the juvenile justice system in Louisiana is not to punish but to rehabilitate. But dozens of young Louisianans were transferred nearly a year ago to the vacant former death row of the…

To assess what America’s increasingly radicalized movement against abortion rights is plotting next against America’s women, it’s generally useful to look to Texas. And what’s going on in the Lone Star State right now should…

Really? We’re still arguing about this? Partisan sniping about whether human fuel-burning is warming the planet — about which there is no reasonable debate — and whether society should do anything about it feels more…

Kansas today is an increasingly urban state.  More precisely, it is mostly suburban.  More than half the state’s population lives in just five counties — Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Douglas. In many of these…

America’s sharp partisan divide means that more state governments are run by a single party. This can lead to unchecked corruption unless parties police their own. The impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton…