Commentary

Meditation by a lake

Pandemic is Prime Time to Start Meditating

The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing efforts have created an ideal context for meditation.

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Man wearing a face mask.

Three Key Ts: Testing, Tracing and Treatment in a Post-Pandemic Economy

Now is the time to learn from the COVID-19 outbreak or there will be no escaping the worst of the pandemic and economic collapse.

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A view of Portugal's Bairro Alto neighborhood

Age of Coronavirus: Quarantine Diary

Flatland reporter Vicky Diaz-Camacho recounts her return from an idyllic European vacation to quarantine in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Jean Zeldin

Jean Zeldin Looks Back on a Long Career in Holocaust Education

Jean Zeldin looks back on her long tenure as executive director of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.

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Jim LaManno is a surviving spouse from a neo-Nazi shooting in Johnson County that killed his wife Terri.

The Innocent Victims of Hatred’s Blindness

A surviving spouse looks back at a neo-Nazi shooting in Johnson County that killed his wife in 2014.

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