Opinion

Mayor de Blasio and the City Council have agreed to spend $250,000 to help women cover the cost of terminating pregnancies, announcing that New York City now becomes the “first city in the nation to directly fund abortion care.” Is this pragmatic...

In a party-line vote — Republicans for, Democrats against — the Ohio House is seeking to require those claiming compensation for injuries they suffered on the job in Ohio to answer a question about their citizenship. Approved 58-36, the amendment to...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that if you are convicted in a state court of a criminal offense, the federal government can put you on trial again for essentially the same crime, and if you’re convicted, your new sentence can be added to your old one. In...

Quick: Of the presidents who have served over the past 50 years, who were the most fiscally restrained? Ronald Reagan? George H.W. Bush? Gerald Ford? No. Annual spending growth, in fact, was slowest under Bill Clinton. Democrats and others may remember that balancing...

In a state with nation-leading rates of obesity, drug overdose and infant mortality, the last thing Ohio schools should do is shortchange basic health education. Unfortunately, Ohio actually is the last — the lone holdout that gives public schools no guidance on...

The world’s automakers want President Trump to strike a deal with California. Last week, 17 car companies, including General Motors, Ford, Honda and Toyota, sent a letter to the White House urging the president to find a middle ground in his planned rollback of...

Manufacturing jobs, one of the pillars of northwest Ohio’s economy, aren’t the eye-candy careers that school-age children usually desire. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is trying to change that with a wave of camps aimed at fourth through eighth graders to stir...

Scot Peterson was negligent at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But was he criminally negligent? That is a dangerous legal stretch. Ten of the 11 charges filed Tuesday against the former Broward County Sheriff’s deputy presume Peterson could have saved...

What will it take to stop this? Twelve people were murdered in a mass shooting in Virginia last Friday afternoon. The Virginia Beach community is now going through a process the people in Connecticut know all too well — remembering the lost, struggling with...

A bunch of white supremacists went to Dayton to foment hatred and, instead, were confronted by an overwhelming demonstration of love and camaraderie. But the presence of members of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan in a major city in Ohio was a stark reminder of the rise of...

Volume II is the blockbuster, the one still getting all the attention, pertaining as it does to the question of potential illegal activity by a president. But let’s not forget the Volume I findings of the Mueller report: how agents of the Russian government...