Have I mentioned lately how much I’m enjoying the lectures from self-avowed liberals who insist my respect for Hillary Clinton is proof that I am not a “real progressive”? It’s not just men — my sisters, you disappoint me — but it’s particularly entertaining when the reprimands come from young white men who were still […]

There are many reasons to recommend Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” but this is not a book review, so I offer this single, searing paragraph: “I have said before: It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all […]

The one good thing about Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s campaign for the presidency is that he provides many opportunities to point out to the rest of the country what we here in Ohio have known for too many years. The man is no moderate. One of the ways he proves this, over and over again, […]

Five days after the shootings in San Bernardino, California, Jan Larson McLaughlin sat down in her home office on her day off and wrote her weekly editorial for the Sentinel-Tribune, circulation 9,000, in Bowling Green, Ohio. McLaughlin has worked for the newspaper for 31 years, the past 2 1/2 as editor-in-chief. She usually writes her […]

Well, this is quite the view. I’m sitting near a window that overlooks a busy intersection in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Across the street, a large digital billboard looms above a pizza joint. Every 30 seconds or so, a plastic surgeon’s ad unfurls, revealing an essentially headless woman — we can see her red lips — […]

I am so tired of the media tap dance around Donald Trump. Earlier this week in Iowa, Univision journalist Jorge Ramos — regularly acknowledged by mainstream media as the Walter Cronkite of Latino America — was first ejected from a Trump news conference and then allowed to return to continue a heated exchange with Trump […]