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Editorials

Our anthem’s question: After 250 years, how are we doing?

After hearing and singing our national anthem throughout our lives, we may miss the grammatical twist at its heart. Its entire text is a question. When Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner in 1814, its question was literal for him: “O say can you see, by the dawn’s early ...

Pete Hegseth’s vaccine policy has backfired

An influenza outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas has sickened almost 160 people in the past few weeks and might have even killed one person going through basic training. If it wasn’t already clear why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to eliminate the military’s universal ...

JD’s foreign policy directives invite great harm

There is a coherent world view behind the vice president’s foreign policy and that is exactly the problem. J.D. Vance does not stumble into the outcomes he produces. He believes in them. He sees a tripartite world with America secured in its own hemisphere, Russia dominant across its near ...

The next American century can be built here in Ohio

Ronald Reagan understood that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Preserving it requires more than resolve. It requires the willingness to build. As Ohioans celebrate America’s 250th birthday, we face a test Reagan would have recognized. We confront a rising ...

East Palestine residents still dealing with toxic exposure

While lawmakers continue to sit on their hands and pretend they don’t know railroad safety reform is necessary, a new report by The Guardian focuses on research that indicates exposure to the chemicals released in a 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine DID damage the bodies of ...

Credit unions won’t apologize for success that benefits Ohio

As we get set over the next few years to not only celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States as a nation but also the 225th anniversary of Ohio, and the 100th anniversary of the credit union movement in this country, there is a lot of history to celebrate and reflect upon. And it is ...