Opinion

Within a span of a quarter-century, ancient rivalries and simmering tensions propelled the major nations of Europe into two devastating wars that eventually embroiled so many states that they became known as the first “world wars.” At the end of the first...

Oh, cut it out, some leftist critics have said of the adulation now being visited on the late President George H.W. Bush. But what they might want to do is learn from him. They might want to reflect on his courtesy, his kindness, his honesty, his forgiving nature, his...

More than 125 tax exemptions of various kinds cost Ohio an estimated $9 billion a year — and they tend to grow over time. That’s why, nearly two years ago, the General Assembly laudably created a joint Tax Expenditure Review Committee to review each of...

George H.W. Bush famously acknowledged that he didn’t have “the vision thing,” but that wasn’t entirely true. He had a vision of public service, of country above all, of how to govern at home and conduct affairs overseas. In office, he was a...

Biased federal laws that have subjected a generation of African-American men to unfair, lengthy prison sentences may finally be reformed thanks to an unlikely ally in President Donald Trump. Who knows the motives of the president, who normally takes a hard-nosed...

Forty years ago, an American preacher and madman named Jim Jones orchestrated the largest mass murder in recorded history when he forced more than 900 men, women and children to drink a cyanide-laced punch at his eponymous settlement in Guyana. Early news reports...

Comic book fans know writer and editor Stan Lee like baseball fans know slugger Babe Ruth. Both men were mythic. Their impacts and legacies are strong fuel for fan arguments. And both men changed the way the world looked at their professions. But Lee — who died...

Last week, Cleveland appellate court Judge Melody J. Stewart became the first African-American woman and the first African-American Democrat to be elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. True, Stewart’s election may have had more to do with being the highest-rated...