A blog about Kansas City politics and culture.

Democratic candidates are generally popular, Times/Siena polling finds, but retaking the Senate remains a big challenge.

My husband, Peter’s, birthday is this week. Peter does not celebrate his birthday. Peter doesn’t think the day of his birth is anything to celebrate. He’s happy to celebrate my birthday, but he says ...

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In a 1997 Profile for the magazine, he looked for Donald Trump’s soul. Where it should have been he found—nothing.

Every day, I walk by dozens of beautiful houses. I am an admirer of grand old houses. I live downtown, just blocks away from some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, where lumber barons and early ...

This is a complaint from both the far left & right for anybody able to watch without tacitly revealing their weird hangups . ...

My husband, Peter's, birthday is this week. Peter does not celebrate his birthday. Peter doesn't think the day of his birth is anything to celebrate.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Under the silver sky, everything was at a standstill. Only a managed, optimized, and frictionless 'happiness' existed there. What exactly was that ending? And—why did the AI 'Red' repeat at the end ...

“I suppose I have to start packing,” my husband, Peter, said. It is always so hard to leave. Packing up from San Miguel de Allende is not a terribly difficult process because we leave the art on the ...