The West — the United States, its NATO allies, and a few other nations — have greatly aided Ukraine in its heroic resistance to the Russian invasion, now in its 11th week. Washington and its…

Even as America topped a million coronavirus deaths on Monday, congressional Republicans continued playing games with vaccine funding, holding it up over an unrelated immigration debate. The same short-sighted politics are also preventing the U.S.…

With no explanation, the Kansas Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a state district judge’s ruling that the new state and congressional voting maps violate the state constitution for being overly partisan. In the ruling, the…

Politics, not people, should determine how Kansas’  state and Congressional district maps should be drawn, the plaintiffs argued Monday. And the fact that Republican lawmakers hold a supermajority in both the Senate and the House…

He may play one on TV but Tucker Carlson is no fool. When the Fox News commentator stares into the camera on his talk show and rants for 10 minutes that President Biden’s immigration policies…

Once again, the truism that hate speech fosters violence has been tragically reconfirmed, this time in Buffalo, New York. A white supremacist’s rampage Saturday that killed 10 was fueled by so-called replacement theory, the far-right…

It wasn’t so long ago when Missouri was a purple state, up for grabs by whichever party did the best job capturing voters’ imaginations. The state was split down the middle politically as recently as…

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s a yearning for regular times that’s understandable and unstoppable. That reality, however, requires doing more to minimize COVID-19’s spread than the strategies employed so far at 2022’s high-profile…

How on earth does one spark controversy from that blandest of government creations, the internal working group? One way is to give it a scary, Orwellian name like the Disinformation Governance Board. That is the…

Last week’s rains and cold had us wondering if we could ever put winter wear away only to be followed by this week’s scorching temperatures.  Our region’s unpredictable weather is part of its charm —…