We live in an era of compounding climate disasters. Hurricanes lead to power failures that make heat waves more miserable. Heat waves harden the ground and make flooding worse. The Colorado River might be about…

The reconstitution of the Republican Party from the nation’s conservative redoubt into an instrument of one man’s will is almost totally complete. Sen. John Cornyn has just added another line to the GOP obituary with…

War is ugly. So is hubris. The next time President Donald Trump tells you how well the war is going, remember that U.S. missile strikes have killed more than 1,400 people in Iran, including 168…

It’s not easy to put bad news on our front pages, especially when it’s local. We want to project Allen County as a safe and friendly place to live and do business. So it was…

The U.S. war on Iran has exposed the mounting costs to President Donald Trump’s solo foreign policymaking, driven by whim and unchecked by strategic planning or competent advisers. Apparently, the president never foresaw Iran’s willingness…

For years, it advanced slowly, almost unnoticed.  It wasn’t advertised at freshman orientations or highlighted in admission brochures. Yet it’s everywhere, in classrooms, resident halls, even in the quad where students gather.     Over…

In last year’s flap over the Wichita City Council’s Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation, I caught flak from both sides.  Left-wingers laid into me for supporting Mayor Lily Wu’s right not to read the proclamation…

The backers of a constitutional amendment to get rid of merit selection of Kansas Supreme Court justices prattle a lot about bringing “transparency” to the process. Fortunately, you have the opportunity to watch merit selection…

Pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs revolutionized work at pharmacies in the 1980s, when what were then known as “switchers” served as the middleman to provide real-time insurance verification and customer responsibility.  However, they have evolved…

I am a pharmacist. I am a pharmacy owner. I am an employer. And for six months of my life, I was also a cancer patient. While I already knew of the problems with PBMs…