Just in time for Black History Month, Kansas Rep. and Higher Education Budget Committee chairman Steven Howe introduced House Bill 2460, calling for restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion practices on college campuses. The bill…

In the event of another pandemic or other public health emergency, our county commissioners are to have sole discretion on how to respond, according to new legislation approved by the Kansas Senate on Thursday.  The…

The new battlefield over abortion rights centers on the use of in vitro fertilization. It’s a battle that is highly personal for me and my wife, Erica. Last summer, we became the parents of twin…

Back in 1998, Madeleine Albright, then the secretary of state, called the United States the “indispensable nation.” She meant that this country, armed with unmatchable force and influence, stood at the helm of a web…

At last week’s Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City, we had stopped near Union Station for a few moments and contemplated waiting to see if some of the Chiefs players would be coming that…

For the last 15 years I have anxiously watched the trajectory of Alex Navalny, the Russian dissident who so bravely exposed President Vladimir Putin as the ruthless dictator he is. On Friday morning, Navalny, age…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Look, I happen to believe in prayer, which as all of the rest of you who do, too, know is nothing like asking Santa for Barbie’s pink Corvette.  As my son…

Guns ruin everything.  There’s no nice, nuanced thing to say about the shooting Wednesday at the end of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City.  No “on-one-hand-on-the-other-hand” equivocating about the death and injury and…

Last week, smack in the middle of a series of congressional meltdowns over border security, the Congressional Budget Office dropped the latest edition of its 10-year budget and economic forecast. It’s the kind of report…

Special Counsel Robert K. Hur’s report, in which he declined to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents, also included a much-debated assessment of Mr. Biden’s cognitive abilities. “Mr. Biden would likely present…