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Is affordability really a crisis?

At some point, the headlines turned “affordability” from a concern into a “crisis.” But what does affordability mean? For most of us, that depends on what we consider our minimum requirements for happiness. If you look at TikTok, life in New York City is a fairy tale of chic bars, eggs topped with caviar and everyone looking conspicuously stylish. For much of Gen Z, TikTok is what they know of the expensive cities they and plenty of others dream of frolicking in. The music. The sunsets. The screenshot bait. They set their hearts on the pricey neighborhoods paraded across the ...

Coaching, teaching are matters of trust

Teachers and coaches are supposed to be people you and your children can trust. But hardly a day goes by without news of yet another authority figure blurring the line between those who work in schools and the students in their charge. At Ursuline High School last year, the allegations included members of the team’s then-football coaching staff — including a veteran state-championship coach — looking the other way as some players committed acts of brutal hazing against teammates during a camp trip across several states in June. School and team officials downplayed what ...

Press panic at Pentagon threatens Stars & Stripes

Oh, no. Stars and Stripes is under fire again. Controversy is not exactly unknown to the legendary military newspaper. Born during the Civil War, Stars and Stripes has taken all sorts of flak and survived, impressively for a publication owned and operated by the U.S. military that nevertheless calls itself an “independent” voice. As someone who served overseas as a drafted Vietnam-era army journalist, I can tell you that military journalism is not an oxymoron. Or, at least, it’s not supposed to be. But “Stripes,” as it’s commonly called in the service, has a new and ...

Ohio residents face economic insecurity woes

Buckeye State residents don’t have to be reminded, but research from the Urban Institute might help elected officials and policymakers remember a significant number of their constituents are struggling with economic insecurity. According to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal, the institute updated its 2023 research with help from U.S. Census Bureau data to look at “income fragility,” and other factors here. For example, the cost of average rent, groceries and day care for two in Ohio is more than $55,000 per year. That means even those who aren’t sitting at or below the ...

American press proves it’s the real threat in Iran war

Three weeks into a military engagement in Iran, a war Republicans will not call a war, the American and Israeli militaries have all but wiped out Iran’s capacity to make war. We have killed their leadership, the replacement leaders and militia members on the ground. We have destroyed their missile launchers and the factories in which they made the missiles. But Iran still has one of the most powerful weapons in the world on its side and it is ruthlessly deploying it — the American press corps. “Families mourn as dead are laid to rest in Tehran,” blared the front page, above the ...

In a battle of wills, the mullahs clearly defeat Americans

Three weeks after the start of the Iran war, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it’s necessary to separate the president’s motives and mindset from the old ways we used to decide questions of war and peace, tariffs, sanctions, immigration, taxes and other matters. Before venturing into Trump’s mind, let’s consider the shape of the discussion. Those who imagine that we are still operating in a normal world are making arguments in favor of military ...