On July 18, 2017, the heads of four KC-area library systems joined KCPT’s Nick Haines...

Sisters Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas were once quiet convent dwellers. Forty-six years ago, however, the two nu...

As part of the country’s celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., Occidental College history professor Sharla...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival, the audio equivalent of a film festival, returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all f...

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...

Kansas City knows both the pain of a failing education system and promise of renewal as its public schools system anticipates full state accreditat...

Americans overall are wealthier than ever, but that prosperity has its limits. The gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” has widened to a point n...

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

When introduced in January with the rest of The Kansas City Star’s revamped editorial board, new editorial page Editor Colleen McCain Nelson...