It’s not often Kansans feel their votes have a national impact.  But on Tuesday, we sent the country the message that a majority of everyday citizens feel that women should have access to abortion. And…

What do you even write when the most powerful lobbying force in your state not only loses a pivotal election, but gets their heads handed to them? The immediate reaction is shock. The secondary reaction…

Rather unexpectedly, the 117th Congress is shaping up to be one of the most productive in recent memory. A new compromise reached by Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer could prove to…

It’s one of nature’s most incredible sights: Millions of monarch butterflies, clustered together across the tree line, moving their wings in near unison. As the temperature warms, the butterflies take flight, cascading through the forest…

Laden with 26,000 tons of corn, the Razoni, a cargo ship registered in Sierra Leone, set sail from the Ukrainian port of Odessa on August 1st. The transit, Ukraine’s first maritime export since Russia invaded…

As Kansans prepare to vote on the future of reproductive health care in our state, we would do well to remember another chapter in our history. Between World War I and World War II, Kansas…

Three of the region’s four U.S. senators decided Wednesday to hold sick veterans hostage to their own anger. It’s appalling and childish.  The senators — Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Roger Marshall…

Marci Penner challenged the audience Thursday to be more receptive to change and to break away from being “a culture of ‘no.’” Sometimes what’s needed is to “break up the power paradigm of the older…

Dear editor, I encourage citizens to vote NO on Tuesday, August 2, to keep our constitution as it is now and continue to protect a woman’s right to make the best healthcare decision possible for…

In this era of reflexive counterpunching, where powerful people and institutions are often conditioned not to back down, public apologies are rare. When they do come, they are often begrudging statements designed to silence critics,…