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Time for leaders to show understanding

Columns

About a week after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was released, offering insights about the direction our country is headed. After the troubling political violence we have witnessed recently, it is not shocking that a majority of those surveyed believe we are in a dire situation. The sample size was relatively small — 1,183 participants — but I think some of their views align with those of many Americans. The primary finding was that those who believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction ...

Trump loves the farmers into bankruptcy

Columns

At a 2018 press conference in New York City, Trump said of American farmers, “I love them, and they voted for me, and they love me. ... And they said, ‘We don’t care if we get hurt, he’s doing the right thing.’” During his 2025 joint address to Congress, Trump said, “Our new trade policy will also be great for the American farmer — I love the farmer.” Hardly any sector has suffered from Trump’s trade wars more than agriculture. Soybeans were hardest hit. Before the first trade war in the first Trump administration, China was the biggest foreign market for ...

Have Democrats become the party that stands behind murder?

Columns

Why are so many Democrats fond of wishing death on their opponents? That’s a question raised by two astonishing developments early this month. On Oct. 3, National Review’s Audrey Fahlberg revealed texts Jay Jones had sent, perhaps mistakenly, to Virginia state Del. Carrie Coyner, bemoaning the cordial remarks then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, was delivering after the death of a Democrat. “If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, “I will go to their funerals to p— on their graves. Send them out awash in something.” Prompted, he goes on. “Three ...

Christian counseling reaches SUPCO

Columns

When the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal in 2015, I wondered what standard they would use should polygamists appeal for similar rights. In accepting a case from Colorado Springs about whether a Christian counselor can advise minors with gender dysphoria and same-sex attractions, the court will again face the question of free exercise of religion vs. the establishment clause. The case involves the parents of a teenager who claims to be a different gender than the one identified at birth. The Christian parents sought help from a counselor who shares their faith. A ...

Growing war against immigration enforcement

Columns

Donald Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he’s got it. The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple of months ago. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hate the notion of the National Guard in the streets of the city, but have failed to rally Chicago residents to do the one thing necessary to avoid the deployment — let federal officers do their job. The word should have gone out long ago: ...

Keeping tabs on credit use

Editorials

For some Ohioans, use of credit cards is a carefully planned luxury — perhaps used to ensure the accumulation of lots of airline or hotel points — for purchases that can be paid off within a month or two. But for Buckeye State residents between the ages of 18 and 34, a recent analysis of Federal Reserve data shows the use of credit cards feels like a necessity — and one that is causing them to rack up higher-than-average levels of debt. Along with those high levels of debt come high levels of delinquency, according to a report on the data by the Ohio Capital Journal. Ohio ...