David C. Dewitt

Here's the real kick about how President Donald Trump's tariffs are going to hike prices for everything: Once that happens, even if the tariffs go away, the prices are never, ever going back down again.

A nation abandoning academic freedom, policing freedom of thought in the classroom, persecuting freedom of expression on campus, dismantling education, and ripping down its own pillars of world-renowned scientific and medical research, is a nation in the wild-eyed throes of moronic and shameful madness.

I am once again asking Ohio lawmakers to please just feed the children. For all that is good and decent, at long last, with all the strife in the world, would you please at least just make sure schoolchildren aren't going hungry?

If Ohio politics continue on their current trajectory, Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine's final proposed budget might be the last sane, reasonable, compassionate state budget we see proposed from an Ohio governor for quite some time.

Ohio Republican lawmakers want to raise taxes. Specifically, they want to raise taxes on recreational weed by 50% while making it less potent and redirecting all of its tax revenue into their own grubby little hands.

America's love affair with confident stupidity continues to reach awful new heights. The piper will need paid, and the pain will be extensive.

If more Ohio teens are forced out of the closet to families that reject them, more Ohio teens will be forced into homelessness as a result of the new law passed by Republican lawmakers and signed by Gov. Mike DeWine.

Does Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman hate public schools? I'm genuinely asking. He very well might not hate public education. But as an observer, it really comes off like Matt Huffman hates public education.

When people lie to us, they are tacitly calling us stupid and weak. Stupid enough to believe their lies; weak enough to accept them. As such, lying is a contemptuous act. It is anti-social, and a debasement of the trust and order on which we have built civilization.

Ohio lawmakers are currently occupying unconstitutionally gerrymandered seats. This is not a matter of opinion. It was adjudicated by the Ohio Supreme Court five times. It is a fact. And it's why Ohio Issue 1 is now on the ballot.

Bernie Moreno claims he was joking about Ohio women and abortion rights. If he has time to make jokes right now, he should have time to give a straight answer on whether would respect the will of Ohio voters and the Ohio Constitution.

Three generations of my family have called Springfield, Ohio home, and my partner's family is Haitian. Both the Haitian community and Springfield community live in my heart, and I’m disgusted by the politics being played on both of them.

Ohio Gov. DeWine lost all credibility when he repeatedly voted for illegally gerrymandered maps. Now he's pitching a proposal that would have lawmakers draft redistricting reform based on an "Iowa plan" that leaves lawmakers with final authority.

FirstEnergy was the company behind the largest political bailout and bribery scandal in Ohio history. This week, Sludge reported that Trump’s top campaign money bundler advised FirstEnergy on its contributions to a dark money group that pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in that scandal.

Like J.D. Vance, I am also 39 years old; I also grew up in a struggling “rust belt” city in Ohio; I have also lost countless people close to me to the scourge of drug addiction; and I have also spent a lot of time in Appalachia. I have some concerns.

In the “Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest” from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Ohio Capital Journal won seven awards last week, including three first place finishes and four in second place. The contest covered stories and editorial from 2023.

No matter how I slice it on the role of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in the biggest public corruption scandal in Ohio history, I’m forced to conclude he is either knee-deep in the corruption, or he is so wildly incompetent he let it all happen right under his nose without suspecting a thing.

Eighty years ago today, the largest invasion fleet in human history crossed the English Channel to launch an unprecedented, world-turning assault on Nazi-occupied France. Remembering the enormity of that moment today is as critical for America now as it has ever been.

For the sake of all the national eyes turning this week toward The Great Ohio Big Top Circus of Dysfunctional State Government, I figured I’d throw together a timeline to try to give folks an overview of all that’s been happening in Ohio to bring us to this point:

Ohio Statehouse Republicans stand determined to make a lurid example of themselves on just how toxic and destructive gerrymandering is. To paraphrase Cicero, how long, O' gerrymandered Ohio lawmakers, is that madness of yours still to mock us?