Evidence is building that the American economy badly needs a jolt close to what President Joe Biden and Democrats seek to give it, which is far more than the limp $600 billion relief plan Republicans…

If there is a silver lining to dark and brooding clouds of rolling blackouts amid bone-chilling temperatures and a dangerous snowstorm, it’s that those blackouts are protecting Texas from a larger calamity. No one likes…

Just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner reported that 1.37 million customers — businesses and households — in the Houston region still had no power. “I know people are angry and frustrated,” he…

The Kansas Legislature has decided to wade into the fraught issue of schools and COVID-19 — by looking to undermine public education. As The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Andrew Bahl wrote last week: “The debate over education…

Approximately one year from now, the world’s athletes are expected to gather for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in a country that the U.S. government officially considers to be engaged in genocide. That country, China,…

The only redeeming factor from the weeklong impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is that it’s over.  The politics of today meant Democrats had the Sisyphean task of convincing Senate Republicans they should put…

Should Kansas high school students pass a civics test in order to graduate? No. Like more than a few ideas emanating from the Legislature, this is a cranky letter to the editor masquerading as public…

While cowering behind upended tables and desks during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, some members of Congress removed their Congressional pins to evade detection. Elected officials wear the ornate pins without…

Other than former President Donald Trump himself, there may be no voice in America more culpable for spreading the dangerous myth of a stolen Nov. 3 election than Fox News. The cable network has duped…

When then-U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran voted on the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton, he decided to stand on principle. Even if one disagrees with his decision, his words still have the ring of authenticity and…