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The authors of The Sumner Story discuss the history of Sumner High School, the formerly segregated black high school in Kansas City, Kansa...

The authors of The Sumner Story discuss the history of Sumner High School, the formerly segregated black high school in Kansas City, Kansas, that i...

Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...

John Hay and Samuel Clemens grew up some 50 miles apart along the Mississippi River and became acquainted early in their respective careers – Hay a...

We’ve been beguiled over the past decade by a romanticized, Silicon Valley-inspired take on entrepreneurship, glorifying its practitioners as darin...

Some countries are so good at educating children that virtually all their youngsters can make complex arguments and solve complex problems. In othe...

William Faulkner once famously noted, “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” If not explicitly, he was referring most pointedly to an...

Bestselling author and former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski discusses his new book about the most remarkable r...

Beset by sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal, declining membership, and the stunning resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church...

Compromise and accord seem more elusive than ever in this era of bitter political partisanship. But mediation expert Mark Gerzon s...