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America’s freedom is not free

At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, “What’s a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?” The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, understand that, although they could care less what their own citizens think, in free countries public opinion and support is vital to a president’s ability to wage war. By impeding the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil supplies pass, they ...

A scary rhyme across time

I’d give anything not to write this column. But the comparisons are clear when history rhymes. President Donald Trump’s America is a foghorn call across time — to Germany in the 1930s, when Adolf Hitler rose to power legally. Note, I do not mean the 1940s, when the Holocaust became the greatest crime in human history. Hitler built grandiose architecture in Berlin to mark his chapter in history, the Third Reich. He had his own architect, Albert Speer, to follow his ideas. Trump has his own master ideas for buildings in the nation’s capital and acts upon them without much ...

Surprise! Progressives discover what GOP has always known: Voters don’t like taxes

One of the most consequential trends in American politics is that Democrats are increasingly discovering what Republicans have known for decades: Voters don’t like taxes. Now the gubernatorial primary in California has become an experiment in how far tax cuts might take a Democratic politician in one of the country’s bluest states. Katie Porter, one of the most progressive legislators during her six years in Congress, is running for governor and polling in the middle of a crowded field. To boost her languishing campaign, she has proposed eliminating state income taxes — for ...

Trump’s definition of war as ‘excursion’ won’t float

Here we go again. What else can one say to the stream of misinformation and disinformation flowing out of the White House and Pentagon since the war in Iran broke out? We have grown wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s cavalier relationship with the facts. Combine that with his tendency to snatch words out of the air, appropriately or not, and you come up with a jumble of head-scratchers. A leading example is his repeated oddball description of the Iran war as an “excursion,” which caused brows to furrow and eyeballs to roll. Excursion? Does the president know the ...

Reality remains that many Muslims want to kill Americans

Importing people who hate America didn’t end well. See if you can spot any similarities in these four events. During the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked Iran, Ndiaga Diagne opened fire at a bar in Austin. He wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt on top of an Iranian flag shirt. He killed three people and injured more than a dozen before police shot him dead. Diagne was a citizen of Senegal. He entered the United States in 2000 on a tourist visa and became a naturalized citizen in 2013. On Saturday, March 7, around 20 people protested Islam outside of Gracie ...

State leaders must work to lower high cost of child care

Advocacy groups noticed a gap in Gov. Mike DeWine’s State of the State speech last week, as they worry about his failure to mention accessible, affordable child care as a priority for the year. To be fair, if the governor had mentioned everything he wanted to get done as his tenure wraps, we might still be listening to him speak. Still, it is important for DeWine and lawmakers not to drop the ball on an issue that is immensely important to many Ohio families. “Tell me how you can be pro-growth, and pro-business, and pro-Ohio when you are telling parents you should stay home ...