In 1983, a young well-coiffed David Copperfield conjured up a magic trick so bombastic and implausible in an analog world that 50 million viewers stayed home on a Friday night to watch the Statue of…

The White House directive to put psychedelics on a regulatory fast track is at once welcome and worrisome. The attention to psychedelics is overdue, and there’s a real opportunity to build a stronger scientific base…

Need some new wheels? You can buy a new 2026 Jaecoo J5 compact SUV for the equivalent of just $18,400, out the door, all fees and taxes included and with a list of features that…

Register editor: Removing Nathan Fawson as CEO of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center is an example of small town politics at its worst.  This is very unfortunate and shortsighted. The changes he was implementing…

PRESIDENT DONALD Trump charged into this destructive crusade without a word to Congress, without a clear rationale for why he was doing it and, now, with a spiraling price tag for the American taxpayers. No,…

With its recent dismantling of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court evoked the spirit of 1898. That year, Louisiana adopted a new constitution with the explicit design to keep Black men…

As soon as I spotted my patient in the waiting room, I knew that I’d be admitting him to the hospital.  His breathing wasn’t necessarily heavy, but there was something in the contour of his…

When Joe Biden left the Oval Office in January 2025, he apparently let his favorite sheet of music fall from the Resolute Desk and flutter to the floor. It’s the same music that now is…

Well, the Kansas race for U.S. Senate just got a lot more interesting. The Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of the largest church in Kansas, has now officially announced he’ll challenge incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall. And…

The day you file a trademark is the day you become a target. I learned this the hard way.  I am writing it down so the next Kansas City small business owner does not pay…