Missouri Gov. Mike Parson suggested Tuesday he he isn’t enthusiastic about working with other states to reopen their economies in a coordinated way once the coronavirus crisis has passed. “At the end of the day,…

The staggering economic consequences of the social distancing edicts adopted across most of the nation last month have led to a vigorous debate over whether, to use President Donald Trump’s term, the “cure” for the…

Kansas leaders, the time has come. Our state needs to switch to a mail-in election system, for primary and general elections. That’s a sweeping statement, we understand. But the reasons are compelling and deserve to…

President Donald Trump has tried to wash his hands of the COVID-19 pandemic ever since it was first brought to his attention four months ago. In January, Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services,…

Nobel Laureate Peter Medawar once defined a virus as “a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein.” He wrote in 1983 that “no virus is known to do good.” The key to stopping the…

Woe to the newly unemployed in Kansas. Computer crashes, dropped calls and flooded phone lines are the new norm at the Department of Labor since tens of thousands have begun seeking relief from the COVID-19…

As we mourn the loss of thousands to the coronavirus, we must also find ways to celebrate these lives taken too soon. This is easy with John Prine, the great American songwriter who died of…

What the country needs right now is a plan. Actually it needs lots of plans for how things are going to work if COVID-19 sticks around for months or more. What are we going to…

April, most experts say, is when we will see the coronavirus peak. Does that mean things will gradually return to normal afterwards? That is everyone’s hope. But recovering from the costs — both social and…

The Kansas Supreme Court made the right decision Saturday by upholding Gov. Laura Kelly’s order limiting church attendance in the state. The decision will protect the health and safety of Kansans. The controversy began Tuesday…