At first glance, results from the release this week of the 2024-25 state report cards on academic achievement in Ohio’s 607 public school districts contain no knock-your-socks-off surprises. School districts that traditionally have scored well continue to do so. Those that have marks ...

Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record — criminal or moral. There’s no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don’t, in themselves, warrant ...

Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted — and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides. These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon ...

Changes in guidance out of Washington, D.C., have left many confused about the accessibility of COVID booster shots this fall. There are questions about eligibility, insurance, and even where a patient can get the vaccine. Axios tried to unravel the mystery and found states falling into three ...

In his life’s work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation’s partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in ...

From Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy, and from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., America’s story has too often been marred by the silencing of visionary voices through violence. Each loss forces us to confront the question of what kind of nation we want to be. Soon after the ...