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Gen Z is prepared, excited to learn

The 2026 autumn semester has quickly entered full swing, and I am eager to see how my English composition students at Ohio State University's Lima campus approach their research for their first essay. We have not yet had our library research sessions, but some have expressed ...

Everything is bigger in Texas

The race for control of the Senate next January is a dead heat. Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive. But it's possible that the fate of the chamber known as the "world's greatest deliberative body" ...

We need data centers

With the level of concern over data centers rising to near-hysteria, you'd think people were suddenly rushing to build nuclear waste dumps next to elementary schools throughout the country and that radioactive sludge was threatening to engulf children across America. At this point, data ...

Small but welcome justice at Gitmo

The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government today alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of ...

Good progress, bad structure

In 2007, Hugo Chavez sent men with rifles into the Orinoco Belt. They walked into oilfields Americans had surveyed, Americans had drilled and American engineering had made productive and told ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips to take a minority stake in their own work or get out. Those two ...

We should be grateful to be Americans

This well-known rhetorical flourish at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence needs closer consideration. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are ...