We wallow through late June, the long days alternating between prickling rain and sodden heat, news of the world outside obscured by the muggy haze of long weekends, summer vacations and evenings spent streaming “Widow’s…

On a recent evening in Monrovia, Indiana, a crowd packed into the local coffee shop angry about a proposed data center. Before the meeting started I chatted with Mikey, whose family had lived in the…

During National Pollinator Week (June 22–28), people across the country will celebrate bees and other pollinators while learning how to help protect them. As a master’s student in entomology, I’m doing some reflecting of my…

SpaceX’s initial public offering made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. You might think there’s not much you can buy with a hundred (or a thousand) billion dollars that you can’t buy with one billion…

When it comes to AI deception in elections, a line has been crossed in Oklahoma, and Kansas is defenseless because our state Legislature declined to deal with the threat when it had the chance. A…

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Washington and Europe expected a quick Russian victory. Russia’s population was more than three times that of Ukraine, its military four times larger and…

Here’s a riddle: In April, the enterprise payroll provider Dayforce released a report finding that half of full-time workers in the United States can’t cover their basic needs. And yet, in the same news cycle,…

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I applaud the Iola-USD 257 school board for their willingness to rethink its laptop policy at the high school. Change is easy to criticize; as an elected official, it’s often easier to just leave things…

From Spring Hill to the Flint Hills, Tonganoxie to Finney County, data center proposals provoke strong, public opposition. After pushback, the proposal in Spring Hill was withdrawn. Across the KC metro in Independence, Missouri, two city officials…