Opinion

Here’s some news from 2020 that seems almost good: Despite heavy job losses during the pandemic, the proportion of Americans without health insurance didn’t spike, as you might have expected. Some employers maintained their coverage.…

Last week when the country’s midsection was in the grip of a polar vortex, Texan Roland Burns, CFO of the natural gas company Comstock Resources, gushed, “This week is like hitting the jackpot with some…

The nation passed a grim milestone Monday, counted as the approximate time the U.S. crossed the line of 500,000 lives lost to COVID-19. “Numbers can be a bit sterile,” Bob Anderson, chief mortality statistician for…

In Texas and across much of the South, record-breaking cold temperatures and ice storms trapped millions of people indoors without electricity. People froze to death, and failing water treatment facilities left millions of Texans under…

Texans’ anger with Ted Cruz right now could power an entire electrical grid. The outrage was sparked by viral images on social media Thursday showing Texas’ junior senator making his way through the airport, bag…

There is no need to pretend that Myanmar’s short-lived democracy was perfect or full before the rapacious military snuffed it out. But for all its serious shortcomings and limitations, the civilian government was the choice…

Kansas Moms Demand Action held their first advocacy day in Topeka in 2016. There were just more than 10 people there. I was one of them. On Oct. 13, 2009, my life was forever changed…

My parents were married for 46 years. Right up until my dad died 10 years ago, he lived by a simple maxim: On all matters, big and small, my mother was right. When she embarked…

Despite elections and trials and pandemics, some things don’t seem to ever change. The national government pushes around state governments, with mixed amounts of success, and state governments push around city governments, usually with near-total…

Dear editor: The lack of media coverage and public attention on rising anti-Asian hate crimes and anti-Asian sentiment in our country is disturbing. I have learned about these hate crimes spreading across the country after…