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Opinion.

So, who’s afraid of big, bad Bari Weiss?

Columns

There’s something bonkers in the hard left’s hysteria over Bari Weiss becoming editor-in-chief of CBS News. A psych eval comes toward the end. John Oliver recently delivered an unhinged tirade against Weiss as a right-wing tool of MAGA. Oliver was his usual self — frantic hands, googly ...

Stand Up For Ohio

Editorials

“As stated in our lapse of appropriation correspondence dated Oct. 1, 2025, SNAP has funding available for benefits and operations through the month of October,” reads a letter dated Oct. 10 from Ronald Ward, acting associate administrator of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. ...

Illegal betting, sports and the mafia never mix

Columns

In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not. It didn’t take a genius to predict what might happen, especially when politicians can find new sources of revenue beyond income, ...

The rare-earths travesty could be a warning sign

Columns

In the 1960s, the conservative intellectual James Burnham wrote a book arguing that the decline of Western civilization was a self-imposed choice. The volume, famously called “Suicide of the West,” desperately needs to be updated with an epilogue about the U.S. dependence on China for ...

Taking a closer look at the trends in Virginia and New Jersey

Columns

No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year’s presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year: New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia voted ...

In Trump’s universe, black is white and white is black

Columns

I am confessing up front that I suffer from logophilia. That sounds serious, and it is. It means I love words. I explore their meanings and derivations. I am always on a quest, often fruitless, for precisely the right one in each sentence I write. That’s what makes the term “antifa” ...