Marshall, John

A couple of weeks ago Roll Call, the U.S. Capitol’s insider news magazine, reminded us that a complicated quirk in budget rules exempted U.S....

Sam Williams, the former mayoral candidate from Wichita who now heads the state’s Department of Revenue, has sent out a column of old worn...

The image seemed to leap off the page, radiant, the black-and-white thumbnail of a young woman with the smile of a perfect prairie sunrise....

Naturally in Kansas, given the Calvinism coursing through our heritage, we are at risk of paying for good fortune with a bit of the...

Does anyone remember that back-to-the-future agreement several years ago, in Topeka, the one about building a small town for the State Historical Society? In...

Consider the way Trump Republicans think about the world, the universe. They pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, offering no substance, no evidence...

Rural editors should think of their newspapers as the diary of a country town, a community journal. Years later the record of life in a...

Emmanuel Macron, 39, the new president of France, is more evidence that progressive nations are turning to young, learned, and especially sophisticated leadership in...

Legislators often fall prey to the no-tax lobbyists, those alt-right yawpers who believe that highways build themselves, the police work for free, hospitals and...

We have a coffee mug that says on one side: “Talk is cheap...” And on the other, “until you hire a lawyer.” Joking about lawyers, the perplexity and...