This fall I will mark my ballot to retain all six Kansas Supreme Court justices.  Yes, I know that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. So, as judges often demand, here’s the evidence supporting…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing mind games with us. On Thursday afternoon, Putin blamed “Western elites” for giving Ukraine unwarranted support in their valiant eight-month resistance to his attempted takeover. Our values of fighting…

This election season, Gov. Laura Kelly and her allies have relentlessly worked to tie her opponent Derek Schmidt to former Gov. Sam Brownback, particularly the unpopular  cuts to education funding.   Yet far more can…

Dear editor, Patrick Schmidt is smart, qualified, and committed to making life better for Kansas families. Patrick graduated from Tufts University with a major in international relations and served as an intelligence officer in the…

Dear editor, Rural Kansas needs the kind of representation Alana Cloutier can give us. She and her husband Paul moved to Humboldt several years ago to help with A Bolder Humboldt, a rural economic revitalization…

Do Kansans want to stay in Kansas? Can they?  Most of us probably will. The new “Kansas Speaks” survey from Fort Hays State University reveals that roughly two-thirds of Kansans expect to be living in…

Like a student who knows a bad grade is coming, the country should have been prepared to receive poor marks on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the nation’s report card. Indicators…

Abortion rights may not be on the ballot, but they will undoubtedly influence the November election.  You’ve probably heard a lot of people try to extrapolate from the Aug. 2 results to forecast what will…

It is a sign of democratic progress that Britain’s next prime minister will be of Indian heritage. The Conservative party is not the natural home for many of the country’s non-white voters. Yet so many…

It’s no surprise that the Kremlin would try to divert attention from its failures in Ukraine toward a new story about Kyiv’s purported plans to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb.” Transparent disinformation, Moscow’s tale might…