Donors often try to conceal their involvement in politics, and campaigns try to hide what they spend their money on.
Local government controls your roads, schools and utilities − but that doesn’t mean the US president doesn’t touch your life in important ways
When it comes to the November election, races up and down the ballot have distinct and profound effects on our lives.
Can you change your personality? Psychology research says yes, by tweaking what you think and do
The concept of a personality may sound like it’s set in stone. But personality is really much more flexible − and you can take steps to craft your characteristic thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Diet-related diseases are the No. 1 cause of death in the US – yet many doctors receive little to no nutrition education in med school
Looking for ways to eat better? Turns out your doctor may not be your best source of information.
An Overland Park pharmacist quit the drug insurance game. He says it could save you money

Nick Romo spent a decade as a pharmacist under the rule of insurance companies and their middlemen. Too often, customers couldn’t get the drugs their doctors prescribed or ran into prices so high they walked away empty-handed. So two years ago, he opened Pharmington Drugs in south Overland Park in rebellion against it all. “I […]
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America is increasingly dependent on foreign doctors − but their path to immigration is getting harder
While they’re in high demand, more and more foreign doctors are starting to see America’s immigration process as too risky an endeavor.
What America’s history can teach us about debates on religious freedom and its importance for democracy
Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.
Continuing crackdown on churches and NGOs moves Nicaragua further from democracy to authoritarianism
As one of the last large, influential organizations outside the government, the church is being targeted in Daniel Ortega’s ongoing crackdown.
Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game
Students found the topic of climate change less boring when they studied it using a numbers estimation game.
One child overdosed and another cut his own neck at a Kansas foster office. What that says about the system

Paramedics had to rush a Kansas foster teen to the hospital because the 15-year-old girl was overdosing on muscle relaxants at a foster care contractor’s office. One month later, paramedics rushed back to that same Topeka office because a different foster child found glass and cut himself. “Child on (scene) cut up his arms and […]
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