In 1951, Richard Garwin was 23, a junior physicist working summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the atomic bomb that had decimated Hiroshima six years before.  Edward Teller, Garwin’s older colleague at the…

Right-wingers of Wichita want protesters arrested for chanting “86 47” on Saturday.  In a related story, right-wingers of Wichita have abandoned any pretense of respect for the United States Constitution.  The calls for the arrest…

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling has preserved, at least temporarily, a hallmark of our system of government — the separation of church and state. The vote, deadlocked at 4-4, preserved a ruling by the…

With the filing deadline for seats on local city councils fast approaching — June 2 — it’s time to do some personal inventory. “Do I have gifts that can be of service?” “What do I…

Early Thursday morning, the U.S. House passed the reconciliation bill that will cut hundreds of billions of dollars from critical programs that low-income Americans rely on.   In Kansas, the bill is likely to cost…

More than two decades ago we blew the whistle at Enron and WorldCom, industry giants whose spectacular falls revealed two of the largest accounting fraud scandals in American history. We know the destruction that fraud…

Last week, the Missouri General Assembly brazenly attacked the will of the people.  Again.  Lawmakers repealed parts of Proposition A, the citizen initiative that passed with 57% support, to raise the minimum wage and secure…

Mark Zuckerberg is right that our nation is beset by an epidemic of loneliness. People of every age now too often find themselves isolated from family, with too few friends and little to keep them…

President Donald Trump redefined America’s role in the world during last week’s four-day trip to the Middle East. Since World War II, the United States’ foreign policy has been driven by an assumed responsibility to…

In Kansas, the average worker might hope for a $2,500 bonus at year’s end, if the company did well and the manager remembered.  But under a new federal plan, a federal Immigration and an ICE…