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If the law doesn’t give you what you want, try intimidation.  That’s the reprehensible tactic that our state’s biggest schoolyard bully, Attorney General Kris Kobach, is using in a dangerous attack on transgender children for…

WASHINGTON — In a career that spans more than half a century, President Joe Biden has long been known all too well for mangling words, names and dates in verbal pratfalls known, perhaps gently, as…

The lazy days of summer can seem unfathomably long on an empty belly.  For health officials, the three-month break from school is a special concern for families that rely on the schools to provide their…

Kansas Sen. Cindy Holscher, a progressive Democrat from Overland Park, sponsors a lot of bills and resolutions that don’t stand a chance of passing our conservative and veto-proof Republican state Legislature.  This year, she’s signed…

History will record this as the week the GOP formally kowtowed to Vladimir Putin. This was the week when otherwise sane Republicans, who’d spent months drafting a bipartisan Senate bill that linked major border reforms…

I so wish my mother were alive today. She would be proudly sporting a bright gold shirt with No. 22 emblazoned across her chest, and we would be sitting side by side at every possible…

Well, Kansas sure picked a heck of a year to bring back presidential primary elections.  On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump has already steamrolled pretty much all comers, and former South Carolina governor…

I’ve been following the fate of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph over the past weeks.  The 168-year-old publication is at a crossroads. Its owners, the billionaire Barclay family, agreed to sell the newspaper to…

At some point in our lives we all have the urge to rewrite history. “The dog ate it,” revision starts early. And if not tempered by a healthy conscience can get dangerously out of hand.…

Kansas has some of the most permissive gun laws in the country, and last week the state house began debate on a bill that, if passed, would put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to…