Nearing Kansas City’s April 2 primary, the sprawling field of hopefuls to succeed outgoing Mayor Sly James gathers for a public forum soliciting their...

As the U.S. Supreme Court begins a new session this week, constitutional law scholar Frank Colucci assesses the transition in it...

American politics, and democracy itself, are seemingly in crisis amid today’s hyper-partisanship, legislative gridlock, and growing public distrust...

The First Amendment facilitated such essential American reforms as ending slavery and extending voting rights to women. Former USA TODAY edit...

Retired Canadian Army Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire discusses his attempt to end the coerced recruitment and use of children as soldiers, a...

Kansas City Mayor Sly James joins daughter Aja James and her co-author, Audrey Masoner, in a discussion of their new children’s p...

A panel of international military officers, currently studying at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, discusses their...

Scott Bullock, who heads the libertarian, Virginia-based Institute for Justice, examines the role and impact of public interest law f...

Condoleezza Rice, now on the faculty at Stanford University, examines pivotal moments have taught us about democracy in her new book Democ...

For decades Kansas City has had what city leaders described as a very expensive and dangerous headache – a crumbling sewer and stormwater system, f...