Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe this past week walked back paid the sick leave protections for workers that a large majority of voters wanted in the 2024 election. Last fall, the Kansas City Star Editorial Board…

Fifteen years ago, when Arizona enacted a notorious anti-immigrant “show me your papers” law, I wrote an essay in The Times that began, “I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon. Because I’m not going…

The Israeli prime minister cited Mr. Trump’s efforts to end conflicts in the Middle East. But in truth he is grateful to the U.S. president for joining his war against Iran last month and for…

If Congress doesn’t act, the Social Security Trust Fund will be insolvent as soon as 2033, and millions of Americans who have been paying into the program will see a significant portion of their promised…

Unable to resist the political clickbait, President Donald Trump muscled Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier out of the limelight June 30, to celebrate the opening of a Florida first. It is…

Three months ago a tariff announcement by Donald Trump caused a market meltdown.  More recently his words have mostly elicited a shrug. On July 7 America’s president published letters he had sent to 14 countries…

For the third time in less than six months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has moved to suspend munitions shipments to Ukraine, and President Donald Trump has reversed the decision. Trump announced on Monday night that…

Whether or not you accept the sincerity of Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent New York Times op-ed, “Don’t Cut Medicaid,” after his vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill which, by Hawley’s…

The premise of President Donald Trump’s new budget plan is to put so much money in people’s pockets that even those who are targeted by its cuts will share in the largesse. Kansans know the…

The Kansas City Chiefs and Royals say they need more time to negotiate new stadium agreements with Kansas.  Monday, predictably, the state extended the deadline for stadium talks with both clubs.  It isn’t clear why…