Who owns our Senator? Really.  Who owns Senator Tim Sheehy? One man invested $8 million in an unknown, unproven, young candidate’s Senate campaign.  For $8 million, you don’t just get a thank-you note.  You get…

As a journalist, sometimes you make an error. And I’ve always believed that when you publish something that’s wrong, you need to be up front about it, acknowledge it, and correct it as soon as…

Kansas was born arguing. Before it became a state, before there was a Capitol dome in Topeka, the Kansas Territory was consumed by a defining question: whether it would enter the Union free or slave.…

The Islamic Republic of Iran and its violent disruptions have hung over my entire career. I took the Foreign Service exam as the regime seized U.S. Embassy hostages in late 1979 and grappled with the…

Well, that didn’t take long.  When the Kansas Legislature passed the so-called KIRK Act to prevent colleges and universities from regulating political activism on campus, I warned that lawmakers were rolling out a welcome mat…

The soldiers didn’t need directions. They followed the bodies. In late April 1945, as troops from the 358th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army’s 90th Division pushed into the wooded hills of far eastern Bavaria,…

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and, five years later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill made it clear to everyone that unless something monumental was done about the coast, we would all lose.  In the aftermath of…

When my daughter Renae, my firstborn, was 5 months old she spiked a fever. By that evening, she was having trouble breathing — the color was gone from her face and I could see her…

Even when you’re a journalist, it’s extraordinarily rare when you get to talk with two prominent national politicians from opposing parties in the same day.  For me, that day was Friday, when I covered Sen.…

I was the general counsel of the National Archives for 26 years. My main job, until I retired last year, was to implement and enforce the Presidential Records Act.  The act requires that the president…