The Kansas State Board of Education in February unanimously rejected the resignation of commissioner Randy Watson, Kansas’ highest-ranking education official. The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Andrew Bahl and Rafael Garcia reported instead the board opted to suspend…

On Monday, the House Taxation Committee held a hearing that served as an epilogue to 10 years’ worth of drama in Kansas. Donna Ginther, director of the Institute for Policy and Social Research at the…

It’s hard to settle disputes when one side doesn’t show up. Such was the case Monday when Russia failed to appear before the World Court to defend charges it has falsely accused Ukraine of committing…

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin spent 90 minutes on the phone with French President Emmanuel Macron, who asked him to declare a cease-fire in Ukraine. Not interested, Putin replied. “He refuses to stop his…

“This war is for all the world,” a haggard Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN from an underground bunker, surrounded by sandbags. The incredibly brave Ukrainian president is correct. Ukrainians are fighting for us, for the United…

Until Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine last week, the standoff between Russia and a U.S.-led Western alliance had produced, on balance, a net strategic benefit for China. Now that Putin has pulled the trigger,…

It’s been a week of disbelief watching in horror as Russian troops descend on Ukraine. The dead lying in the streets. People sheltering in subway tunnels to escape the blanket bombings. Schools, hospitals, apartment buildings…

For more than two decades, Alexander Lukashenko ping-ponged between Russia and the West, extracting what he could from both sides while ruling Belarus with autocratic fervor and more than a little eccentricity. On Feb. 1,…

Anyone with access to the news and a moral sense knows who is responsible for the unfolding tragedy in Ukraine. Yet realistically many of those confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tanks won’t survive their heroic…

It is a sad day in Kansas when Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration doesn’t even dare to stand up for lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines. And as we now know, that day came last month. That’s when, under…