At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, “What’s a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?” The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, ...

I’d give anything not to write this column. But the comparisons are clear when history rhymes. President Donald Trump’s America is a foghorn call across time — to Germany in the 1930s, when Adolf Hitler rose to power legally. Note, I do not mean the 1940s, when the Holocaust became the ...

One of the most consequential trends in American politics is that Democrats are increasingly discovering what Republicans have known for decades: Voters don’t like taxes. Now the gubernatorial primary in California has become an experiment in how far tax cuts might take a Democratic ...

Here we go again. What else can one say to the stream of misinformation and disinformation flowing out of the White House and Pentagon since the war in Iran broke out? We have grown wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s cavalier relationship with the facts. Combine that with his ...

Importing people who hate America didn’t end well. See if you can spot any similarities in these four events. During the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked Iran, Ndiaga Diagne opened fire at a bar in Austin. He wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt on top of an Iranian flag ...

Advocacy groups noticed a gap in Gov. Mike DeWine’s State of the State speech last week, as they worry about his failure to mention accessible, affordable child care as a priority for the year. To be fair, if the governor had mentioned everything he wanted to get done as his tenure wraps, ...