Eric Greitens left the governor’s office in the same way he acted in the nearly 17 months he was there — arrogant, dismissive of the Missourians he was supposed to serve and blaming everyone but himself for his demise.Now, it’s up to his successor,...

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last summer in favor of a mid-Missouri church that sought public funds to pay for a safer playground, it was clear that the often blurry line between church and state was going to be debated and defined yet again. A...

A few scant months ago, it seemed that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, two combative and unpredictable leaders, were moving toward a possible nuclear confrontation that could result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands,...

“If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand wither….”  — Psalm 137:5The formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital, and the move of the U.S. Embassy to the holy city, is an event comparable to the founding of Israel in...

Anyone who favors the sensible but elusive two-state solution in the Middle East couldn’t help but be disappointed by recent comments by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. But they should not be surprised, either. In a speech to the Palestinian National...

What did you feel when police finally figured out who knocked over all those headstones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery — and that reportedly the reason was drugs and drink, not anti-Semitism?Relief? When a crime goes unsolved for more than 14 months,...

Just a few months ago, alarm bells were going off around the world amid fear that the United States and North Korea were on a collision course to a catastrophic war.  Kim Jong Un, the erratic dictator of North Korea, appeared hell-bent on developing...

In all the stories about the sorry mess involving Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens – a new felony charge, his upcoming trial involving invasion of privacy, the graphic details given by his former lover – the most telling coverage may be a brief snippet...

In what was clearly designed to be a pre-emptive strike against a devastating enemy, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens went before the media last week just before a House committee released its investigation report (http://bit.ly/Greitens-report) into claims...

The coordinated and precise attack on chemical weapons facilities in Syria brought by the United States and its allies last week was entirely appropriate and brilliantly carried out. Now, the world will watch and wait to see what the next act will bring.President...

Once again, the world is recoiling in disgust and horror at a dastardly chemical weapons attack unleashed on a suburb of Damascus in which scores of civilians, many of them children, died and many others were horribly sickened.After a similar attack a...

In a political atmosphere that continues to generate far more heat than light, voters in the Parkway School District provided welcome relief last week.After a campaign that featured subtle and not-so-subtle code words and undercurrents — a race that...