by John M. Crisp Our future is foreshadowed by our past, and few human activities have shaped our history more than our near-irresistible compulsion to fight each […]
Author: Syndicated Columnist
Why Israel is losing my support
by Nicholas Goldberg For many years I believed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fixable, that a final resolution could — and ultimately would — be found in the […]
Red state, blue state; some are large, one has Marge
by Gene Collier A lot of Americans can steer past Presidents Day without even noticing it, even if they find it suspiciously odd that there is no […]
Ohio’s train derailment the real national security threat
by Brad Martin and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg Earlier this month, a threat with potentially serious consequences for the long-term national security of the United States presented itself — […]
Movies and music: Watching ‘Elvis’ film, visiting Graceland brought mom back to me
by Cathy Cassata At my mom’s wake in 2007, my siblings and I decided to play Elvis Presley’s music quietly in the background. We wanted her friends […]
Putin’s disinformation machine is unrelenting
by Jim Warren No sooner had President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine last Monday than the Russian state news agency Tass berated the surprise visit to “his […]
Intolerance impulse goes both ways
by Steven Roberts The intolerance impulse from the left is as odious as it is from the right. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies are wrong […]
The war on ‘woke’ is meaningless, which is why it’s so popular
by Solomon D. Stevens Right-wing politicians are on the warpath. They want to banish everything that is, as they call it, “woke.” The Florida legislature passed the […]
Jimmy Carter still changing the world
by Nicholas Goldberg The Carter Center announced last week that Jimmy Carter was entering hospice care and would forgo further medical treatment for his various ailments, choosing […]
‘D’ has become the new scarlet letter
by Lawrence Goldstone On a recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former 10-term Ohio Democratic congressman Tim Ryan, who had recently lost a Senate race […]
