As President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development and director of the Office of Head Start during his first term, I have seen firsthand the positive impact of his leadership.  His dedication…

The war Israel waged against Iran was short, with precision strikes, clear goals and results that enhanced its military prestige.  The war against Hamas in Gaza has become endless, indiscriminate and militarily pointless. It is…

When I was a college freshman studying broadcast journalism in 1978, I watched a show on PBS that made me contemplate something that I’d never thought about before: What would I do if one day,…

Good news from Scotland on Monday, as President Trump said he’s now giving Vladimir Putin only another 10-12 days to reach a cease-fire with Ukraine. “We just don’t see any progress being made,” Mr. Trump…

Forty years ago, the world’s conscience was shocked into action by images of emaciated children and starving babies dying in their mothers’ arms. There was a surge in international aid, airdrops of food and activism…

Dear editor, I fully support having chickens in the City of Iola.  I would actually like it to be “poultry,” as ducks would be great also. I think anyone should be allowed to have 1-3…

If financial conditions are restrictive, Wall Street sure hasn’t noticed. Stock indexes hit fresh records this week, and speculative meme stocks are back to mania levels. Meanwhile, smaller businesses in the non-financial economy are tightening…

Life provides us plenty of opportunities to mess up and get things wrong. Our capacity to offend, make mistakes that hurt others, and commit painful errors is a daily reality of the human condition. Fractured…

Our family returned from a vacation to Colorado earlier this week. It’s one of our happy places, and the chance to spend a few days away from the heat of a Kansas summer was most…

If only the couple caught canoodling last week on the Jumbotron at the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, had simply done what everyone else does in those moments at the arena or the ballpark: Thrown…