You’ve probably seen the funny videos on social media: A dog, high off secondhand marijuana smoke, staring into space in his owner’s hazy living room. Maybe the pup is off-balance stumbling a bit when it…

“You gotta be determined as the devil, selfless as a saint. Keep it ‘tween the white lines, and hit ‘em where they ain’t.”  —John McCutcheon, Sermon on the Mound  I can’t remember the last time…

I’ve had three conversations in the past week with three different Kansans, all about the same question. How, they wondered, can we keep the flickering flame of hope alive in a state that seems determined…

After a winter of punishing but indecisive battles, Ukraine is preparing a long-promised spring offensive that officials hope will change the course of the war against Russia. The goal is to break Russia’s hold on…

Most of us fail the marshmallow challenge. Even if we know there’s a greater reward for denying ourselves two sweets instead of one, we say, “why wait?” That can be a problem. Deferring immediate gratification…

Donald Trump deserves the legal scrutiny he’s getting — which has come from many corners on many counts. Yet of the long list of alleged violations, the likely charges on which a grand jury in…

If passed into law, can Education Saving Accounts and tax credit vouchers withstand a constitutional challenge? That’s a question rolling around the Kansas Capitol.  The concern, at this point, is speculation since these two school…

The green revolution was one of the greatest feats of human ingenuity. By promoting higher-yielding varieties of wheat and, especially, rice, plant-breeders in India, Mexico and the Philippines helped China emerge from a famine and…

Nashville is grieving, broken and angry. Citizens feel powerless and we have so many questions about why the fatal shooting at The Covenant School on Monday happened. There are no words that can adequately capture…

It’s a now-taken-for-granted miracle that each year in these United States, more than 40,000 people have many healthy years added to their lives by getting new kidneys, livers, hearts and, in rare cases, lungs. That’s…