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Higher inflation in recent years has eaten up the value of pension payments for thousands of retired teachers, first responders and other public employees in Kansas. Yet the Kansas Legislature has not provided a cost-of-living adjustment in decades. We’ll hear why advocates are calling for a boost in retirement pay for the oldest retirees and why Kansas lawmakers have resisted them. Plus more news from Wichita and around the state.

Bar and nightclub owners are adapting to an emerging trend... their customers are drinking less. We'll find out what's behind the trend. Plus more news from Wichita and around the state.

Inspired by New York City in February of 2020, Emily St. John Mandel’s newest book, Sea of Tranquility, weaves together multiple story lines and timelines.

Hundreds of thousands of people died in the pandemic because they didn’t trust the government or their neighbors to do the right thing. And they didn't trust their doctors. And it’s not getting better. Today distrust is making people sicker, especially where health care is fragile across giant swaths of rural America. We explore this, plus news from Wichita and around the state.

In "My Name Is Iris," novelist Brando Skyhorse explores a world where America get to choose who its citizens.

Beth Golay spoke with Josh Barkan about what he learned through his first marriage to his first wife, about his healing journey, and how his journey of self-discovery took him half-way around the world to meet the man who had come between his marriage.

Coming up, a business that offers a nice cup of tea and a chance to get away. We visit a French Tearoom... in Wichita. Plus we have news from Wichita and around the state.

Fletcher Powell looks at a new movie that really means it.

KMUW's Movie Reviewer, Fletcher Powell says it’s rare for a director to be able to show us people as they really are. We'll hear his review of "Flora and Son." Plus news from Wichita and around the state.

C. Pam Zhang’s writing is visceral, full of blood and muscle, especially when describing the lavish buffets served to the privileged few