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Opinion

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Immigration program won’t go away

The last two decades have been a continuous adventure in redefining the phrase “white supremacy” to include less and less pertinent things. The latest is that the Supreme Court has allegedly joined forces with President Donald Trump to “advance an authoritarian, white-supremacist ...