Three months ago a tariff announcement by Donald Trump caused a market meltdown.  More recently his words have mostly elicited a shrug. On July 7 America’s president published letters he had sent to 14 countries…

For the third time in less than six months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has moved to suspend munitions shipments to Ukraine, and President Donald Trump has reversed the decision. Trump announced on Monday night that…

The premise of President Donald Trump’s new budget plan is to put so much money in people’s pockets that even those who are targeted by its cuts will share in the largesse. Kansans know the…

President Trump keeps beseeching Vladimir Putin to end his vicious assault on Ukraine, but the Russian keeps stringing the American along. Could Mr. Trump finally be losing enough patience to try a different strategy? The…

What do we stand to gain from a weaker Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center? The answer, of course, is very little. Recent coverage of the nonprofit’s executive compensation structure has drawn warranted scrutiny. It’s a…

It’s an irony that the minerals needed to save the planet may help destroy it.  Rare earth elements, the mineral backbones of wind turbines and electric vehicles, are now the prize in a geopolitical arms…

If you’re confused about the Trump Administration’s mass deportation policy, join the club. First it was the full Stephen Miller, deporting every illegal in the land. Then there was going to be a reprieve for…

Donald Trump gambled. But has he won? He has bombed Iran’s nuclear program and immediately imposed a ceasefire on Israel and the Islamic Republic, and without a single American casualty. That is vindication over those…

It looks as if the hope that bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would be a one-and-done affair was wishful thinking. On Monday evening, Iran fired missiles at our military base in Qatar where about 10,000 U.S.…

Is cruelty part of the White House strategy for mass deportation? Sometimes it appears so, and a case in point is the legal ambush to deny in-state tuition to the so-called Dreamers. These are the…