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Broken windows policy can be found at the top

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The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It’s true that other presidents have made changes to the beloved building, but none before Donald Trump amputated an entire limb. The “Broken Windows” theory holds that visible disorder — graffiti, public urination and shattered windows — are signs of social decay that invite worse crimes. Starting in the 1980s, the New ...

AOC poised to be Democrats’ Trump

Columns

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination. On Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of New York City. He wants a rent freeze, city-owned grocery stores and a $30-an-hour minimum wage. He once expressed his support for “seizing the means of production.” In 2020, he wrote on Twitter, “The NYPD is racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.” He wants taxpayer-funded gender mutilation surgeries. His extreme positions ...

The right continues to play a dangerous game

Columns

“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay in Compact. She called it “The Great Feminization” but her screed is very much a hymn to men. Andrews’ essay has received applause from the right, where caveman masculinity is making a comeback, but she has fallen into the trap of black-and-white thinking. Andrews has discovered that men ...

Conservatives look to preserve, Trump destroys

Columns

A recent poll found 65% of Americans considered President Donald Trump to be conservative or very conservative. That I do not understand. Trump is the opposite of a conservative. A conservative conserves, maintaining what is good and just and building upon it. Donald Trump is no conservative; he is a destroyer. For more than two centuries, the bedrock of American conservatism has been our Constitution, the world’s oldest single-document constitution governing a sovereign nation. It has served the country in its growth from 13 states to 50, from 4 million to 340 million people. ...

Some things for Barack Obama and his band of brothers to consider

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Dear former President Barack Obama, During former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, you chastised “the brothers” for what you perceived as their reluctance to vote for a Black female. You said: “We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.” Did you tell “the brothers” who, for the sake of racial solidarity, you tried to shame into voting for Harris that you only believe ...

Don’t Forget to Vote

Editorials

The candidates have had their chance to persuade. The organizations asking you to either renew or approve a tax levy for their services have done their part. Now it’s up to you. Get out and vote at your polling place today. If you didn’t take advantage of early voting, today is the day for Ohioans to go to the polls and cast their votes. On the ballots today are mayoral and city council races, township trustees contests, school board selections and more. And there also are a host of tax levies, charter amendments, and other items that require your attention. This is your ...