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Democrats won, but more importantly, so did democracy

Guest columnists

Stop the talk about a triumphal arch at the gates of Arlington Cemetery. Stop bullying the Kennedy Center into putting the Trump name on its front. Stop obsessing over the Reflecting Pool. Stop cutting down trees at a public golf course in Washington to make a championship course. These pictorial distractions — televised media take note — stopped working on the Main Streets and on the farms. The public felt in their wallets that they were being played. As Donald Trump, his family and his courtiers amassed billions, ordinary Americans' economic interests were ignored, even held in ...

Trump helped tank Republicans

David Skolnick

There were a lot of reasons why Democrats did so well during the midterm elections, but none greater than having Republican Donald Trump as president. Trump holds a special spell over many Republicans. It’s the rest of the country that has issues with him and there are far more voters who are unaffiliated than loyal members of the Democratic and Republican parties combined. Trump’s decision to wage war with Iran caused the prices of gas to skyrocket and, with it, the cost of everyday products. Even with the Republican-controlled Ohio Legislature eliminating the state’s gas tax ...

Losing weight can help us get healthier

Editorials

National Diabetes Awareness Month takes on a different significance in Appalachia, and WalletHub’s “2026’s Most Overweight and Obese States in America,” gives some idea why. Obesity is one of the bigger risk factors and primary cause of type 2 diabetes, and West Virginia is the most obese state in the country. Ohio is 15th. Digging into the data gets more and more disturbing. The Mountain State is first for the percentage of obese adults and the percentage of adults with type 2 diabetes. It is seventh for the percentage of overweight children, second for the percentage of ...

A wipeout for Republicans

Guest columnists

In 2010, President Obama described those midterm elections as a "shellacking" for Democrats, who lost 60 seats in the House. Then, as now, the economy was the top issue. If Republicans could have had a worse night, I don't know what it would be. From Maine to Michigan to Texas, Republicans failed miserably to get any message across to voters that would have persuaded a majority to vote for their candidates. One reason for the debacle was that too many GOP candidates ran on fear - fear of socialism, fear of "jihadis" (a slap at Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed). The blame game ...

The real history of American aid to Israel

Guest columnists

Right before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would stop providing military aid to Israel, forcing the most dedicated Israel-obsessed antisemites to declare that this, too, was evidence of nothing more than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest scheme. However, as debate swirls over what this means for America and one of its most consequential foreign policy relationships in the world, it's worth pushing back on the underlying premise of all military aid: that America has been manipulated into giving up the goods. Nothing could be ...

Keep first responders safe on the road

Editorials

Changes in the rules about how we approach and drive by traffic incidents have met some success in reducing the number of injuries and fatalities associated with roadway incident crashes. But there is still a danger to those who trying to help at such scenes. During this Crash Responder Safety Week, Buckeye State residents are reminded to move over, slow down, avoid distraction and expect the unexpected. For fire and rescue, emergency medical services, highway maintenance, towing and recovery and public works employees, sticking to those rules could be a life-saver. “Anytime you ...