Monday's signing of a measure that gives Joplin more time to create a museum and cultural arts district downtown is an critical opening for the city and the region.

Chinese President Xi Jinping might possibly agree in the coming days on further steps to bring down China's trade imbalance with the U.S., giving Donald Trump a face-saving way of ending his trade war.

True, polls have limited value at this stage of a presidential campaign. Yes, Democrats are far from choosing their nominee to oppose President Donald Trump. Of course, a great deal can change between now and election day.

There was some good news and bad news in the latest community health assessment prepared by members of the Ozark Health Commission's Joplin region.

We think the Missouri Public Service Commission made the right call last week when it agreed to allow Liberty Utilities-Empire District to begin work on a 600-megawatt wind project in the region.

A campaign with an early start and a multitude of contestants heads into high gear this week with a complicated set of debates. And while the contenders struggled mightily to qualify for these events, they will struggle even more to make their voices and their views clear in sessions with ni…

WASHINGTON — That the Democrats' two evenings of dueling oratory snippets this week are called "debates" validates Finley Peter Dunne's prediction that "when we Americans are through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy." Already a linguistic…

With so much political noise in the air, with President Donald Trump and AOC calling their partisan bannermen to political war, it’s almost impossible for Americans to hear themselves think.

Democratic candidates running for president are talking about it. The House of Representatives is going to have hearings on it. And the media is running stories about it.

As former Vice President Joe Biden has embarked on his latest campaign for the presidency, I’ve been reminded about why I left the Democratic Party three years ago, after having been a member since 1980.

Seventy-five years ago this week, Allied forces were barely off the beaches of Normandy and fighting hedgerow to hedgerow against the German defenders of occupied France. The battle for Carentan had just been won, but the battle for the critical channel port of Cherbourg was still to be fought.

Why haven't efforts to impeach President Donald Trump gained Watergate-style momentum? The lack of energy has created a sense of bafflement and disappointment among some of the president's most determined adversaries. But there are some simple reasons for it. Here are three:

WASHINGTON — What's Iran up to? It's not as mysterious as it looks.

What's your favorite object? Don't overthink the question. Keep it clean and take it seriously: What is the one gadget, gizmo, thing-a-ma-jig or provision that brings you pure joy?

Well it’s final: the results are in, and those of us older than 50 who watch more than 3.5 hours of TV a day show twice the decline in verbal memory over six years. A recently released study, in Britain’s Scientific Reports, looks at nearly 3,600 adults and confirms it.

It is time to commemorate one of the most successful programs the federal government ever created.

Even as children are dying at the U.S.-Mexico border, congressional Democrats are hiding from a bill to resupply devoured resources to relieve the misery of thousands of immigrants, and what we have is proof of something important. Democrats can be inhumane, uncaring and a national disgrace.

"What's your pitch to the swing voter on the fence?" ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked President Donald Trump in an interview that aired Sunday.

An Ozark river that recently won a major victory offers lessons and poses challenges for us all.

Donald Trump has been ramping up his Deep State rhetoric again. He's back to blaming a cabal of bureaucrats, FBI and CIA agents, Democrats and "enemies of the people" in the mainstream media for conspiring to remove him from office in order to allow the denizens of foreign "s***holes" to ove…

In early 2017, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick opened the legislative session by prioritizing a measure that would have required people in Texas to use the bathroom of their biological sex in public schools and state and local government facilities.

One in three women will experience a sexual assault or domestic violence at some point in their lives, but more than half of victims who come forward say that no one helped them.

America’s long-awaited, albeit unofficial, addendum to special counsel Robert Mueller’s official report arrived unexpectedly Wednesday evening.

Desperate politicians are apt to do desperate things, and the other day, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's desperation led her to something truly remarkable:

Because the dead don’t leave forwarding addresses, Dad, I’m not sure where to send this, but I’m writing anyway in celebration of Father’s Day. I’m once again proving your point: I’m relentless if I’m determined to make it happen.

My first column after the 2018 midterms extolled on the dangerous shift to the far left and what it meant to our republic. To which I played on The Washington Post’s “Democracy Dies in Darkness” with “In the aftermath of the midterm elections, a more timely slogan could be: The republic dies…

Jon Stewart’s impassioned plea this past week to the House Judiciary Committee calling for permanent legislation to fund the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund surely touched hearts across America.

WASHINGTON — “It is a great advantage to a president,” said the 30th of them, “and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.” Or, Calvin Coolidge would say today, a great woman. While today’s incumbent advertises himself as an “extremely stable genius” a…

Multi-million dollar hits keep piling up for Joplin.

Riddle me this: Exactly how did the Deep State, anti-Trump conspirators in the FBI and CIA persuade Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to hand over sensitive internal polling data to a Russian spy? Not to mention, what did Konstantin Kilimnik do with it?

Elizabeth Warren wants to put CEOs in prison even when they have not committed a crime, and here is a kick in the face of half of what we stand for, although a matter of minute media concern. Reporters, of course, may get more interested if she decides they should be incarcerated for innocence.

WASHINGTON — Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) said, "War is the health of the state." James Madison said, "War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement," and the executive almost is the American state, Congress now being more theatrical than actual.

I've just returned from a trip to Italy, Britain and France, where I watched the struggle between far-right populist nationalists and those who believe in a united, democratic Europe — a democratic Europe allied with the United States.

Maybe Joe Biden had to flip on the question of taxpayer funding for abortion in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

Trumpian economic nationalism is a zero-sum game in which the industries of the future are dominated either by China or by the United States. We win or they win.

U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has long been an ally for families wanting to adopt.

I launched an experiment last week: I tried to unplug from the tumult of President Donald Trump’s Washington and the Democratic presidential race.

One of the more unfortunate effects of the Trump-Russia investigation — and there have been many — is the weakening of traditional standards of argument and proof in the public debate over allegations that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to fix the 2016 election. (Just for the recor…

Happy Pride Month to all of our LGBT+ readers.