Even at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, you likely will not find a physician without opinions about one of its most prominent alumni, Dr. Marty Makary, the former chair of gastrointestinal surgery at Hopkins…

Republicans used to criticize “sue and settle” tactics for changing federal policy outside of the democratic process, but the Trump administration is taking the practice to a new extreme. President Donald Trump “settled” his own…

Maybe you heard the yelps echoing from the hallways of Kansas schools last week as a software outage essentially paused academic work. No quizzes. No assignments. No grading. No video tutorials. And no sense of…

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana will be covered as evidence of President Donald Trump’s grip over the party.  Cassidy voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment following Jan. 6,…

Two statements Thursday evening convinced me I should vote “no” in the Aug. 4 primary election on whether Kansas should change its Constitution on how the seven seats on the Kansas Supreme Court are decided.…

This year brims with opportunities for Democrats.  The president’s party typically loses seats in the midterms, and President Trump’s approval ratings are an abysmal 36%.  Kansas Democrats are fired up because popular Johnson County pastor…

My son Rakan was 5 years old when I first said the word “cancer” to a doctor. They looked at me the way doctors sometimes look at mothers, as if I were afraid of my…

To the Editor, The news this week on the national debt and inflation was not good.  Our country’s debt has climbed to $31.27 trillion — an increase of $1.35 trillion over the last six months;…

In the 1977 movie “Fun With Dick and Jane,” as laid-off aerospace executive Dick Harper (played by actor George Segal) learns to live life as a day laborer, he’s approached by an immigration officer demanding:…

When I first sat down to write this speech, I felt a lot of pressure to find the right message. I could talk about the memories we made, the challenges we’ve overcome, or the people…