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Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits.
How far is Kansas City from...
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If, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is waning in the United States, the questions and concerns around it have not. Where do dangerous new viruses lik...
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There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...
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Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent A...
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These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.”
George H. W....
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Before emerging as a critically acclaimed writer and poet and earning appointments to criminal justice panels by President Obama and the governor o...
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It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...
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The sweeping story of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman is a window into the rise of American capitalism and our country’s subseq...
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Higher education has been in the news a lot lately as politicians debate the merits of student loan forgiveness and free community college tuition....
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There are more than 90,000 people on the kidney transplant list in the United States. Every day, 13 of them die waiting for a call. We need more li...