In a ruling heard ’round the world, the U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. This is an important moment for the rule of law as much as for the…

Nayib Bukele’s autocratic tendencies were already clear when he ran for a second term as El Salvador’s president in 2024.  He had extended a “temporary” state of emergency for two years, and used it to…

Right-wingers of Wichita want protesters arrested for chanting “86 47” on Saturday.  In a related story, right-wingers of Wichita have abandoned any pretense of respect for the United States Constitution.  The calls for the arrest…

Early Thursday morning, the U.S. House passed the reconciliation bill that will cut hundreds of billions of dollars from critical programs that low-income Americans rely on.   In Kansas, the bill is likely to cost…

President Donald Trump redefined America’s role in the world during last week’s four-day trip to the Middle East. Since World War II, the United States’ foreign policy has been driven by an assumed responsibility to…

In Kansas, the average worker might hope for a $2,500 bonus at year’s end, if the company did well and the manager remembered.  But under a new federal plan, a federal Immigration and an ICE…

St. Louis is in a state of emergency.  And I must commend Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on two fronts after an EF3 tornado ripped through my hometown late last week.  First, to prepare for this…

President Trump wants peace in Ukraine, but Vladimir Putin keeps tapping the U.S. along. Witness the Russian leader’s embarrassing no-show in Istanbul Thursday. This revealing episode began last week as the leaders of the major…

While there’s nothing inherently wrong with the U.S. military accepting used equipment from another country, President Donald Trump’s plan to use a Boeing 747 from Qatar as a new Air Force One and then keeping…

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — NATO foreign ministers on Thursday debated an American demand to massively ramp up defense investment as the United States focuses on security challenges outside of Europe. At talks in Antalya, Turkey,…