Forty years ago, military veterans made up roughly three-quarters of Congress. By 2017, the proportion had dwindled to fewer than one in five. The number of veterans on Capitol Hill will dip slightly again next…

Democrat Laura Kelly fended off perhaps the most energizing and divisive figure in Kansas politics on Tuesday to become the next governor of Kansas. Kelly beat out self-described “full-throttled” conservative GOP nominee Kris Kobach, the…

Two of the top three campaigns for Kansas governor are relying heavily on a single source of cash: their own money. The last major campaign reports filed before next week’s election revealed that, in the…

Jason Kander’s decision to withdraw Tuesday from the mayor’s race to seek treatment for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder will surprise many Kansas Citians. Anyone who reads his courageous and candid statement, though, will reach the…

From the vantage point of November 2019, the chaos of Kris Kobach’s initial year as governor seems inevitable. The ambitious Kobach, much like Sam Brownback, assumed that a small-state governorship could propel him into the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican candidate in a hotly contested Kansas congressional race acknowledged Wednesday that claims he made on the campaign trail about starting and expanding a small business in the Middle East…

Our nation has lost its way. Who can truly be happy with the subjects being bantered around congressional committees, White House whisperings, and federal investigations into the darkest of human behaviors? A popular comedian is…