As campaign fever intensifies President Obama went on the Tonight Show to lighten the scene.Mr. Leno goaded Obama into commenting on Donald Trump, who said earlier in the week he would donate $5 million to…

A silent issue in the presidential campaign is the income stagnation that has afflicted the middle class and the poor and made the gulf between the rich and the poor even wider.New York Times writer…

The strategy was laid out in a 1969 memo from a vice president of marketing for the Brown and Williamson tobacco company: “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with…

Monday night’s debate should have given most Americans comfort. It revealed that Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are on the same page on foreign policy.Perhaps there was a little edge to the words, but…

A large majority of Kansans disagree with the direction Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature have taken on taxing and spending.The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University talks to 928 Kansans…

A KU center is developing processes for extracting industrial chemicals from cellulose that could create a major new industry for Kansas.Bala Subramaniam, director of the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, presented an outline of the…

At mile 9, Brian looked over and winked, “Happy anniversary, hon.” It was a welcome pick-me-up. By then the fun of the half-marathon was beginning to wear thin. Still, we did it, along with 4,600…

At Monday night’s Humboldt council meeting, the future of Walter Johnson Park came up when members agreed to extend water lines to the east edge of town to accommodate the new USD 258 sports complex.When…

Joe Aistrup was asked to talk about government, politics and the Kansas economy at KU Thursday.“All I would have to do to alienate everyone in the room would be to add religion to that list,”…

Malala Yousafzai lies in a London hospital where skilled surgeons who learned about traumatic head wounds from a terrorist action give her a 50-50 chance of recovery. Ms. Yousafzai is the 14-year-old Pakistani who was…