Happy birthday, America! Despite what some people say, we’re in pretty good shape for 250. But as someone who remembers what seemed like a year-long celebration of our Bicentennial in 1976, it almost seems that this milestone — officially America’s Semiquincentennial — has some folks ...
JD Vance said last Friday that the U.S. wins "either way" in negotiations with Iran. "If we make the final deal, then great," Vance told HBO's Bill Maher. "If we don't make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed. They're still much weaker as a country." Just hours after Vance's appearance on HBO, Iran launched attack drones on Bahrain — which hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters, a major logistical base for U.S. military operations. Iran also struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, its second attack on a ship since Thursday. So much for Iran being ...
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 light; What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming…?” Captive on a British ship during the bombardment of Fort McHenry, he could see our flag still flying in the flashes of artillery that lit up the dark. Come dawn, however, he wondered who won the battle. America had, and the Battle ...
As America approaches its 250th birthday, I’ve spent some time thinking about the extraordinary endurance of our democracy. When the Founders met in Philadelphia for the constitutional convention, there was no guarantee that their experiment would succeed. What the founder’s drafted was not a finished or perfect system. In fact, the American experiment has always assumed we will not agree on everything. The real expectation was that, even when we disagree, we would still work through our differences. As Americans, we all share a responsibility to keep this great experiment ...
If it seems like there are more and more disgusting cases of animal abuse popping up almost daily in the Mahoning Valley, that’s because there are. It’s become an epidemic. Last week, authorities responded to a property in Coitsville Township. Jennifer Falvey, Animal Charity of Ohio board president and interim executive director, said the agency responded on June 25 to an animal welfare concern at 502 Coitsville-Hubbard Road. According to a story in the June 26 edition of The Vindicator, six dogs were removed from the dilapidated house, which was red-tagged as unfit for human ...
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 authoritarian adversary, a technology race with profound consequences for both prosperity and security and a question of whether this generation has the will to compete. The answer must be yes, and Ohio has a vital role to play. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI’s 2026 AI Index makes ...
