I don’t know if Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly will win her new lawsuit against Attorney General Kris Kobach. But I’m willing to bet she’ll claim victory in the court of public opinion.  Kelly is going…

Just as nuclear war, in all its sheer insanity, has returned to Hollywood and public attention, the leaders of the world’s two atomic superpowers seem to be doing their best to make the jitters worse.…

Several weeks ago, the Register did a story on my participation as Allen County’s delegate to the Kansas Silver Haired Legislature.  I am writing to update you on the KSHL’s legislative priorities for the 2026…

The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University has released the report from their 2025 Kansas Speaks public opinion survey.  This survey, conducted each fall since 2009, covers questions from satisfaction with…

Early one morning last spring, my daughter, then 4½, asked me to tell her again how we’d once been connected by her belly button.  She had begun to imagine a tiny version of herself drinking…

What if the federal government shut down and few people noticed — or cared? Nearly one month since the lights went out in Washington, most Americans don’t seem all that aware, let alone upset. Perhaps…

The federal government has been shut down for 28 days and counting. That’s 28 days too long and already the second-longest federal shutdown ever.  Saturday will be another grim milestone. That is the day about…

Missouri politicians are attacking our freedom. They keep overturning measures that voters have passed, and attacking our power to use citizen-led initiative petitions. As Kansas City residents who have voted Republican most of our lives,…

In recent years, Republican members of the House of Representatives have had a crime rate that seems comparable to that of the most perilous of American neighborhoods, at least going by the growing list of…

Roger Marshall ought to apologize.  Countless Americans filled the streets of cities large and small on Saturday for “No Kings” protests against Donald Trump’s increasingly imperious presidency.  There is a long history of anti-government demonstrations…