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...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...

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Kansas City’s climate is so-so, there are no enticing mountains or ocean views, and the metro area population has climbed only modestly over the pa...