The World of Caffeine

Segment 1: Missouri's 2015 reform bill means fewer defendants bother to appear in court for traffic violations.In the wake of Ferguson, then-Missouri…

Nell Johnson Doerr’s husband rolled her up in a carpet so she’d survive Quantrill’s 1863 raid on Lawrence. Lying alongside the limestone foundation of her…

In the mid-1800s, a young woman and her husband moved to the Kansas Territory to help runaway slaves. The husband died during Quantrill's raid, leaving…

Kansas City takes the nickname 'Paris of the Plains' seriously, and not just because of our fountains. Today, we learn why Kansas City Fashion Week has…

The Bloch family has given a lot to Kansas City, including a donation of 29 masterworks by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists of the late 19th…

Kansas was the birthplace of Prohibition and an epicenter of the anti-abortion movement.Historian and political analyst Thomas Frank — a Mission Hills…

In 2011, Cole Lindbergh was 25 and working his dream job as the games manager at the Kansas City amusement park Worlds of Fun. He was walking over 20,000…

We all have to work. But does your job have to be a daily grind, or can it be ... joyful? We check in with Kansas City native Cole Lindbergh, who worked…

Many remember the name Thomas Frank for his book, What's the Matter With Kansas, in which he details the rise of conservatism in the middle of the…

For many, Ira Glass and his program, This American Life, have been a gateway into the public radio world. But the radio icon, who has one of the most…

Cellist Sascha Groschang is no stranger to new music. Since 2009, she's performed with the alternative strings duo The Wires. But in a collaboration with…

Third time’s a charm for Kansas fiction writer, Thomas Fox Averill. The author of several collections of short stories, it is Averill’s third novel,…