Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri was once a history teacher. On Wednesday, at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, Blunt demonstrated his deep and commendable understanding of history, and what it can tell us about…

The profit motive has been a catalyst to great improvements in the world, with many believing it to be a main driver of innovation and development. In fact, it is a foundational principle of economist…

The best thing about the president’s inauguration speech is that it was classic Joe Biden.  Plainspoken. Upbeat. And full of heart. Yes, we face challenges. But we can not let them be our undoing. Amid…

Joe Biden began his presidency on Wednesday with the same animating philosophy that guided his campaign: The center can hold. That’s a big wager. American society is more brittle now than it has been in…

The Kansas Legislature returned to Topeka last week, and the state and nation in January 2021 looks nothing like the state and nation of January 2020. Last year at this time, we had no inkling…

Just to set the record straight, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas is wrong when he says it is “unconstitutional to impeach a President after he leaves office.” Marshall emailed constituents on Tuesday, adding that Americans…

Vice President Mike Pence deserves much credit for jumping into the gap and leading this nation for the past two weeks since the horrible insurrection upon Washington, D.C. Pence and his family happened to be…

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who headed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under President Donald Trump until 2019, was one of the first experts to call out the slow development of COVID-19 testing in the United…

Wednesday will welcome a new president of the United States. That’s about the only normal of the day. A year-long pandemic and recent civil unrest has turned the pomp and circumstance upside-down.  There will be…

Any more pro-Trump protests after last week’s assault on the nation’s Capitol could be both a public safety and a public relations nightmare for Republicans. That’s not just our opinion, but also that of several…