You may think the place where national leaders gather to talk about the future of the world is Washington, DC, or perhaps the UN Headquarters in New York. In fact, as President Xi Jinping plays…
President Trump recently declared that bail reform is contributing to a public safety “emergency” in Washington and issued two executive orders that seek to halt decades of work to build a safer and fairer pretrial…
After two weeks in the hospital, hooked to an enormous amount of oxygen, my patient, a grandmother of four, took her last breath. Despite throwing all the antiviral and anti-inflammatory treatments we could at her,…
Wednesday’s school shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis is every parent’s worst nightmare. It’s our greatest fear, the thing that keeps us up at night, what we push out of our heads as we…
President Joe Biden said in the last presidential election that our country was at a reflection point. I believe we are way past that point, more like a speeding train heading for a disaster. During…
It’s a hard truth that some kinds of manufacturing are never going to come back in the United States, and no amount of protective tariffs will change that. This truth is ignored at great peril…
In June, something extraordinary happened in Wichita. About 1,500 Kansans packed a town hall at Wichita State University to engage in a once regular but now rare political conversation — one that was open to…
Dear editor, What if all of a sudden you couldn’t eat or drink any of your favorite foods, drinks? Use your favorite toothpaste? Take the meds the doctor has you on for your heart, your…
Every time I hear that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is cutting something to save money, I think, yes, you may, but the undertakers will make money when you cut the things that…
President Trump’s attempt to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is a grab for power in defiance of the nation’s laws, and if it succeeds, it will be to the detriment of the nation’s…