The prospect of a second Trump administration has rekindled a debate from four years ago about the proper role of the military in our democracy. During the tumultuous period before and after the 2020 presidential…

We recently read in The Washington Post that men in Afghanistan are regretting that they did not stand up sooner for the rights of their wives and daughters, now that the Taliban is imposing severe…

There is a great deal of rhetoric surrounding in vitro fertilization on the campaign trail this election season. Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is against it, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has proposed coverage…

Recycling in Iola, or in Allen County for that matter, should not depend solely on volunteers. As proven, it’s not reliable (no offense, you amazing people.) Enthusiasm wanes, schedules get busy, new hands need to…

Dear President Carter, I was in my second quarter of college when you returned to Plains, Ga., in January 1981. Ronald Reagan had just been inaugurated, and you came back to your hometown soundly defeated.…

This is one of those days when something happens and you don’t know exactly what it means, but you know it means something.  I woke up Friday to find that Nancy Kassebaum, one of the…

Most of those who watch politics focus on various national and state political contests, and that’s reasonable. Yet how many of us regularly interact with agents of the national or state governments, enforcing those state…

Republican leaders wish people would “stop whining” about the fact that one in three American women now live in states that ban abortion. Bernie Moreno, Ohio’s GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, recently went so…

On Sept. 10, the same day that former President Donald Trump alleged on the debate stage that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating their neighbors’ dogs and cats, a much greater man spoke…

First came bone needles and stone projectile points, then the wheel, then iron and steel, gunpowder, typesetting, and the American Revolution, followed by the steam engine and Civil War. Automobiles showed up next, followed by…