Donald Trump has done what seemed impossible: He made the pro-life and pro-choice movements agree on something. This week, his comment that there “has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions has earned him the condemnation of both the pro-life and pro-choice movements. His statements on abortion may not make him...
The search for a new Speaker of the House echoes the Republican presidential primary. The Republicans are a party desperate to please their constituents without a clear leader to get the job done. While the presidential candidates fight on, the House Republicans’ best hope represents Ohio’s 4th District.Congressman Jim Jordan has momentum. Other candidates lack...
After the nearly 14-year-long war in Afghanistan, the IntelCenter’s Country Threat Index recently named Afghanistan the fifth- most dangerous place in the world. Even though America’s combat mission ended in Dec. 2014, keeping U.S. forces at their current level will help secure Afghanistan’s future through training and equipping the Afghan forces to deal with these...
Last week, Garrett West argued that we should abandon the discourse of “human rights” and instead adopt the language of “human goods” (“The unappealing politics of universal rhetoric,” Oct. 30). His solution makes it seem that we have only two options: Franklin D. Roosevelt or John Rawls. Considering the consequences from these two lines of...
In his address last week about the current conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, President Obama presented his four-point plan to defeat it using airstrikes, relying on Arab nations for ground support, cutting the Islamic State off from its resources, and giving humanitarian aid to refugees. He made no attempt, however, to...