BOISE, Idaho — Getting a cancer diagnosis is scary enough. For Patricia Nilsson, her diagnosis of endometrial cancer is coming with a hefty dose of frustration: her health insurance company is overriding her doctor’s recommendation…

After Venezuela and Iran, what’s another U.S. military incursion? President Donald Trump said a few days ago that he will be “having the honor of taking Cuba” and that he can do “anything” he wants…

I never expected to spend three years in Kansas City, and yet somewhere along the way I became deeply invested in the past, present and future of the Country Club Plaza.  That investment led me…

I was 8 years old when I was asked to leave the fancy private school where my aunt had been a teacher. It was a bit of irony; the daughter and granddaughter of writers couldn’t…

Across Kansas, lawmakers have advanced a series of policies that directly threaten students’ First Amendment rights — policies that should alarm anyone who cares about democracy, civic participation, and the development of informed citizens.  Most…

The basic storyline of Alysa Liu’s recent Olympic triumph was plenty inspiring: Young Chinese American figure-skating phenom quits the sport at age 16, citing burnout, returns at 18, and with carefree charm at 20 secures…

During the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, bystander video showed America an out-of-control federal immigration agent essentially executing a protester in cold blood for no good reason. And Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson wants to…

Thanks goodness that Boston Federal Judge Brian Murphy has stopped some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine insanity, reversing the Health and Human Services secretary’s dangerous and destructive effort to drop hepatitis A, hepatitis B,…

I met Bill Foege only once in my life. My ten-minute conversation with the epidemiologist, who died in January at age 89, is one I’ll never forget. I had just preached at the Chautauqua Institute…

On a summer day after the Civil War began in 1861, civilians including elites, politicians and socialites packed picnic baskets with sandwiches and cakes and drove their carriages to Centreville, Virginia, to watch, some through…