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Rep. Ryan flip-flops, backs Pelosi after deal struck on term limits

Opinion: It was just last week that U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan told me regarding Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the H


Sherrod Brown’s progressivism would challenge Trump in 2020

Opinion: “The money man dealing himself a hot royal flush. Then giving you and me a phony hand like a pair of


Time’s Person of the Year honors truth over bluster

Editorial: There’s poetic justice in Time magazine’s selection of four journalists and a newspaper as its 2018


A story of Mary and Joseph

Opinion: By Kerri Kennedy OtherWords This holiday season – a time so often associated with bringing


Good grief! Critics miss the point

Opinion: By Tom Purcell Cagle Cartoons Good grief! With everything in everyday American life


Is there a bright future for tuna?

Opinion: By Danny Tyree Cagle Cartoons I’m a big fan of comfort foods, but a recent headline made me feel


Lessons from the Bush funeral

Opinion: The scene at the U.S. Capitol on Monday as former President George H.W. Bush lay in state presented


Open your hearts, wallets to help fire victims’ family

Editorial: Shock, heartache and anguish continue to rip at the heart of the city of Youngstown and the entire


Lessons from Tijuana

Opinion: By Jasmine Aguilera OtherWords President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric hasn’t just


Bulldoze the ‘blue wall of silence’ to end police killings of black men

Opinion: WASHINGTON This just in: Black men are still being killed by police officers for no good reason.


GOP lawmakers in Ohio should change their focus

Editorial: Ohio’s Republican Gov. John R. Kasich deserves credit for reining in the GOP-controlled General


Don’t ignore Bush’s flaws

Opinion: By Peter Certo OtherWords For a moment, obituaries favored the late President George H. W. Bush


Willie Horton campaign ad was Bush’s finest 30 seconds on TV

Opinion: By Ann Coulter Andrews McMeel Syndication The press in America is even worse than we imagine. We


Movie tells ignored story of America’s biggest ‘serial killer’

Opinion: WASHINGTON A word can be worth a thousand pictures. In the movie “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s


Attack on Pearl Harbor remains day of infamy

Opinion: Attack on Pearl Harbor remains day of infamy December 7, 1941 – the attack on Pearl Harbor – is a