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Moral corruption, revenge, madness, murder. Shakespeare’s Hamlet runs the gamut of dysfunction. Set in the castle of Elsinore just after the...

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...

For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...

Education reform comes fraught with questions. How do we distinguish between exciting, new ideas and costly, ineffective fads? Where can policymakers...

Trade between the U.S. and China began in 1794 and the two future superpowers saw their first military engagement several decades later, when American...

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In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...

Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publica...

To the delight of local beer aficionados, Kansas City has seen a recent proliferation of new breweries, building on a history that dates to the 185...

The National Endowment for the Arts affirmed the Kansas City area as a hub for fine poets and poetry late last year, awarding $25,000 creative writing...