For many families, finding affordable child care is one of the bigger obstacles to being able to be full participants in the workforce. Sometimes it just makes more sense for a parent to stay home with the kids than to go out into a job that perhaps doesn’t even cover the costs of child ...

Freedom of speech has always demanded courage, and courage is the one virtue universities cannot delegate. When free speech becomes fatal speech — as it did recently with the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus — Americans demand — and deserve — a change. As president of ...

I have long become accustomed to what I call the “BTMF” reflex whenever a great, news-making calamity or outrage happens. That’s short for “Blame the media first.” As a long-tenured journalist, I try not to take it personally. Yet sometimes the complainers have a point, and we in ...

As the U.S. Senate considers codifying the reestablishment of the National Coal Council, lawmakers have an opportunity. U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli’s bill drew support from enough Democrats in the House of Representatives that it is now moving to the Senate, which will consider whether it is ...

Human trafficking is not just a global or national problem — it’s a crisis happening right here in our own backyards. In the Lake to River region and across Ohio, traffickers are exploiting vulnerable individuals, robbing them of their freedom and dignity. These crimes are not just hidden ...

Just days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I wrote a column in which I warned that inflammatory rhetoric and violence erupting from the left would not go away anytime soon: “Anyone thinking that a spate of firings or nationwide prayer vigils are going to deter the American left had ...