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Editorials

The art of taxing fairly is messy

“The rich should pay their fair share of taxes.” Who can argue with that? But then we must decide who is rich and what is meant by fair. Neither political party has distinguished itself in making such distinctions. But Republicans play an especially outrageous game in portraying the ...

Free speech for me but not for thee

Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times ...

Why Trump will surrender soon, but he’ll call it a great victory

No one knows what President Donald Trump is going to do from minute to minute, least of all Trump. But it's looking ever more likely he'll be exiting Iran within days, declaring his "excursion" into it (as he's termed his war) a major victory — and then changing the subject. On Friday, ...

Cutting gas taxes is good politics, but not policy

With the Iran war driving up the average price of gas more than a dollar per gallon, politicians are calling to suspend the gas tax until the crisis ends. A shortsighted tax “holiday” would do little to help drivers while distorting the market at the worst possible time. While Georgia ...

Politicians just can’t help but create troubled economies

Politicians say they can “make the economy work better.” I once believed they could. But years of reporting taught me politicians’ attempts to “fix” the economy usually make things worse. Twenty years ago, Republicans and Democrats helped create the Great Recession by telling ...

CHOICE Act is a danger to Ohio kids

Sitting in the Ohio House Health Committee is state House Bill 561, a measure for which authors appear to have given as much thought to a catchy acronym as they did to the well-being of Ohio children. HB 561, “to revise the law governing childhood immunizations and exemptions and to name ...