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The odds of a new opera lasting beyond a single production are long. Jake Heggie defied them with his first full composition, an adap...

Kunio Watanabe and William R. Farrell –leaders in the fields of international business and U.S.-Japan relations – discuss the economic...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visiona...

The word is: E-X-A-C-T-I-N-G.   Many of the Kansas City area’s top young spellers – heck, top spellers of any age – face o...

The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...

Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in th...

America in the 1950s was undergoing what the University of Missouri’s Steven Watts calls a “crisis of manhood,” denigrating Eisenhowe...

Even before her acclaimed debut novel, Brit Bennett had drawn attention for her forceful essays about racial injustice, police violen...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visiona...