Sometimes good news comes with a cloudy lining. That’s the case with the recent announcement that Social Security and Medicare are financially stronger than it was feared during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Why…

It’s a good bet something is awry when the President of the United States is asked to pardon someone before he’s been charged with a crime. But that’s exactly what John Eastman did in the…

Everywhere we turn there are signs of the upcoming August 2 constitutional amendment and primary elections, and soon enough they’ll be replaced with reminders of the November 8 general election.  For a political scientist like…

In my basement is a dusty set of 1969 World Book encyclopedias. I’ve kept them as a tribute to that long-ago sales rep who came to our rural home in western Kansas and convinced my…

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think that, as a police officer … I would find myself in the middle of a battle,” Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards said Thursday at the first public…

It shouldn’t make headlines when a member of Congress upholds their sworn oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” But Rep. Liz Cheney, R.-Wyo., stands…

Los Angeles is taking a necessary and overdue step in the fight against climate change and lung-damaging air pollution. The City Council voted last month to ban most natural gas-fueled appliances in newly constructed residential…

When the voices of 70 elementary school students flooded the speakers of Busch Stadium in St. Louis last week, I was haunted by the ghosts of my own childhood fears. Four days earlier, 19 children…

Three generations of LaTrisha Vetaw’s family have smoked menthol cigarettes. It might even be four, since Vetaw knows that her great-grandfather smoked but isn’t sure what brand he lit up. It is a family tradition…

It wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that I watched online at pbs.org Wednesday’s televised hearing on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The testimony and video footage were gripping. I frequently closed my eyes during the…