President Donald Trump offered no new ideas to end the government shutdown and shrugged off demands by Democrats to address skyrocketing Obamacare insurance premiums in an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” Echoing Republican talking…

Just as nuclear war, in all its sheer insanity, has returned to Hollywood and public attention, the leaders of the world’s two atomic superpowers seem to be doing their best to make the jitters worse.…

It’s a safe bet that most Americans won’t notice if the U.S. pulls an Army brigade out of Romania, but you can bet Vladimir Putin will. Behind a reshuffling of U.S. forces abroad is a…

The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University has released the report from their 2025 Kansas Speaks public opinion survey.  This survey, conducted each fall since 2009, covers questions from satisfaction with…

Donald Trump appears to have finally fallen out of love with Vladimir Putin, which is good news, long time coming. If you cut through all of the back-and-forth over the past week regarding the war…

President Trump has demanded that the Department of Justice prosecute his political enemies. He has ordered his aides to use the fearsome tools of the law to investigate fund-raising by the Democratic Party and liberal…

The latest sign of incipient authoritarianism is apparently that President Trump is building a ballroom.  After photos hit the wires showing construction equipment at the White House, tearing into the East Wing, critics lamented the…

It’s been said that Russians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Thankfully for Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s shambolic autocracy has been doing its best to live up to the saying.  After Putin…

In recent years, Republican members of the House of Representatives have had a crime rate that seems comparable to that of the most perilous of American neighborhoods, at least going by the growing list of…

Roger Marshall ought to apologize.  Countless Americans filled the streets of cities large and small on Saturday for “No Kings” protests against Donald Trump’s increasingly imperious presidency.  There is a long history of anti-government demonstrations…