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Why US is ‘underbabied’

Editorials

It was just my luck last week that as my column on the fertility crisis was being laid out in newspaper pages and posted to websites, the sharpest minds of the Trump administration were gathered in the Oval Office to hold forth ... on the fertility crisis. Bad timing is an occupational hazard. But something made it a little more painful for me. As President Trump struggled to keep his eyelids open nearby, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, stated the gravity of the crisis in terms our nation will not soon forget. “1 in Americans,” the ...

Artificial intelligence CEOs are their own worst enemies

Editorials

Much of our rising energy costs comes from a decadeslong campaign of progressive environmentalists and Democrat-backed regulators to tear down coal-fired power plants, block nuclear and natural gas expansion and make America reliant on wind and solar — the two power sources most popular during the dark ages. Data centers get blamed for higher power bills, but the reality is inflation has much more to do with those rising costs. The fear about data centers, however, is spreading with misinformation about rising costs, social harms, etc., spreading from a well-organized propaganda ...

Honor America’s fallen appropriately this Memorial Day

Editorials

Today’s Memorial Day holiday carries added poignance this year as it comes amid a new U.S. war — and war fallen — in Iran and as it ushers in a summer of events to mark this great nation’s 250th birthday. But sadly enough, many in the Mahoning Valley and across the country unintentionally will disrespect the true meaning and purpose of today’s solemn national holiday. After all, ever since 1971, when Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday to be observed on the fourth Monday in May, for many, the holiday is simply the final day of a long weekend dedicated to the ...

Do not use bison as political pawns

Editorials

My sister Erica and I returned to Montana just a few days after the Bureau of Land Management revoked grazing permits for bison. American Prairie, a nonprofit working to create one of the largest nature reserves in the United States, was the target of that decision. Erica and I bounced along two-track roads in our Toyota RAV4 rental, hoping to get close to the American Prairie bison herd. It wasn’t as easy as one might think. What makes American Prairie different is scale. American Prairie has roughly 1,000 bison total. On the Sun Prairie section where we visited, approximately ...

Don’t excuse political violence

Editorials

A society that begins to excuse political violence should not be surprised when political violence multiplies. Once you create a moral framework in which violence is not merely understandable but righteous — once you argue that certain institutions are so corrupt, so “murderous,” that the people who participate in them deserve to be killed — you are no longer condemning violence. You are licensing it. And when that cultural permission structure meets a criminal justice system increasingly designed to favor perpetrators over victims, the results are predictable: more criminals ...

Ohio needs ‘Top Cop’ who stands with the front lines

Guest Columnists

When we talk about the Office of the Ohio Attorney General, we often use big ideas like protecting the Constitution or upholding the law. But the job comes down to something simple. Public safety does not happen on its own. It depends on people who put on a badge and run toward danger when others run away. My vision for this office is simple: If you have our backs, the attorney general must have yours. Supporting law enforcement isn’t just politics. It is how we keep our communities safe. When officers have what they need, families are better protected. Today, officers face ...