Columnists
A successful Russian invasion of Ukraine means a future of more wars
Why do countries go to war? The costs, after all, are huge. Even the winner loses a slab of wealth and places many of its people in…
February 8, 2022
Beltway Confidential
The truth about my Parental Bill of Rights
Family The truth about my Parental Bill of Rights By Greg Abbott February 04, 2022 07:28 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Family The truth about my…
Crime
Dr. Oz’s new spotlight
Sondra Long and her husband David were among the 250-plus curiosity seekers at Giannilli’s II restaurant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, waiting to hear Dr. Mehmet Oz make…
Business
How the tractor wars pulled us into modernity
Just to set the record straight — and who doesn’t want to hike deep into the tall weeds of literary origin? — the sociologist Max Weber didn’t…
Justice
The peril of Biden’s promise
Just a few weeks before the country shut down in March 2020, Joe Biden made a Supreme Court promise that set a ticking time bomb for Democrats.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Chamberlame
One of the most challenging aspects of making a movie about World War Two is finding something new to say about it. The seminal event of the…
Magazine - Your Land
Margarita fix
Few things are better than a good spicy margarita with Tajin on the rim. But no matter how much you’d like it to, that margarita cannot fix…
Crime
Stiffening Republican spines
There is a new attitude prevalent among Republicans who are ascendant following President Joe Biden’s troubled first year in office: unafraid of the media, solicitous of the…
Magazine
Then and Now: Cincinnati Bengals
I had intended to write on inflation for this week’s Then and Now, making some (I’m sure) clever tie-in vis-a-vis President Joe Biden’s bumbling incompetence in handling…
Magazine - Obituary
Howard Hesseman, 1940-2022
In popular culture, Ohio has a reputation for being a bit ordinary, a little mundane, and perhaps even a touch mediocre. Humorist James Thurber, the poet of…