There are signs that sanity might be returning to Oklahoma schools after the disastrous tenure of now-former state school Superintendent Ryan Walters. In one of his first actions as Walters’ successor, new Superintendent Lindel Fields…

President Trump, close our national parks. You heard me right. Ever since the government shutdown began Oct. 1, the parks are being trampled, trashed and turned into macabre theme parks. My husband and I recently…

America is in week three of a government shutdown, and the ability of hundreds of thousands of Kansas families to afford health care is on the line. Debate about whether to fund enhanced health care…

As a young recruit, the first thing I learned when I pinned on a badge was simple but profound: Power must always be visible and accountable. A nameplate, a badge number, an agency insignia —…

Last month, in a special election, voters in southern Arizona chose Adelita Grijalva to succeed her late father in Congress. The outcome in the solidly Democratic district was never in doubt. The final tally wasn’t…

As oceans rise, glaciers melt and some parts of the world flood while others bake in drought, good news about climate change is scarce. Thus, a report last week from Ember Energy Research is worth…

On my home office wall hangs a framed poster with the word peace in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. I acquired it in Jerusalem in November 1977 when I was covering Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic…

There’s a reason they call election time “the silly season.” But it doesn’t get much sillier than what’s going on with campaign finance in the Wichita City Council 1st District race. Supporters of candidate LaWanda…

For decades, Americans have been sold a slick fantasy, that if your eggs don’t slide out of a pan like a Vegas card trick, you’re doing it wrong. It began in the 1960s and 1970s,…

I was talking to a teenage girl in Afghanistan last week. She was on her laptop and I was on mine. She was explaining to me how she came to understand that women don’t have…