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Editorials

Tech visas a raw deal for US workers

The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let’s savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations.” The visa’s fans offer a mirror ...

Free speech and its discontents

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” -— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ...” — First Amendment to the U.S. ...

Why isn’t media reporting on Trump’s dementia?

Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn’t — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that “every American will soon receive their own MedBed card” that will grant ...

Ongoing anti-Trump terrorism campaign

Donald Trump’s second term has been met with a sustained, low-level campaign of domestic terrorism. It has mostly involved relatively minor property damage amid much more consequential acts, but the pattern of violence meant to achieve anti-Trump political goals has been unmistakable. I ...

All lawmakers must remember for whom and why they serve

If watching Congress has not been enough to make you wonder whether elected officials worry about doing any real work, or remember for whom they serve, Ohio lawmakers seem eager to answer with “No, not really.” They missed their first deadline for congressional redistricting, on Sept. 30, ...

Perception that young people fare worse today fails reality test

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: “Young people today can’t get ahead!” One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, “A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one ...