Marshall, John

President Trump continues to amaze. Only recently he has courted North Korea, played footsie with Russia and blessed China while cursing our neighbors and threatening...

It may seem that government has grown beyond our grasp, but it should be remembered that we have made it that way. We, the...

Eight years ago, the annual Midsummers Festival moved to Riverside Park with the theme, Coming Home to Sweden. For a long time the Festival...

Before the summer’s campaign cicada chorus turns to an autumn cricket screech, imagine something on the far side of all the noise. Think on...

Leading into the coming elections, someone is bound to trot out that tired notion of term limits for legislators, as though this would solve a lot...

The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the legislature’s latest effort to redeem itself in state funding for local schools. This issue...

  In spite of a long history that warns against such folly, the Congress and the White House continue to believe that blackmail is an...

Burdett Loomis, a columnist and emeritus professor of political science at KU, lamented recently the demise of the legislature’s summer study committees. In recent...

Political storms are gathering for the coming elections, so forget that tired adage about quirky Kansas weather. It isn’t likely to change for awhile. The...

On one mid-afternoon, a woman paused in the supermarket parking lot to declare that the weather was perfectly splendid ‒ the kind of day,...