A blog about Kansas City politics and culture.

As far as I know, most of my people were farmers. On both my parents' sides, my Scandinavian ancestors came across the ocean looking for better topsoil. I know immigrants came for many reasons-- to ...

Sophia Smith Galer first understood language loss as a sound coming from upstairs. Her 93-year-old nonna was in bed in north London, speaking al dialët, the family’s regional language from northern ...

I am an admirer of grand old houses. I live downtown, just blocks away from some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, ...

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 ...

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

He’s happy to celebrate my birthday, but he says he should get to do what he wants to do on his birthday. And what he wants ...

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

When I was 8 years old, I played a game while on vacation. I was visiting the ocean for the first time. The sand was dry, and ...

Philadelphia is the proud birthplace of the United States Postal Service, and Benjamin Franklin is to thank for it all.

The U.S. Postal Service is no longer set to be out of cash in 2027, the agency's head says. But its finances remain shaky as ...

With the end of the season fast approaching, the trainers’ championship battle continued to heat up in May while champion jockey Zac Purton celebrated yet another major milestone in his glittering ...