Elizabeth Sullivan

On Friday, retiring Plain Dealer and cleveland.com Editorial Cartoonist Jeff Darcy sent the following note to our staff, reflecting on his long career, and what it's meant to him.

The U.S. Supreme Court has essentially given Donald Trump carte blanche to do whatever he wants on his second term, should Trump be elected, writes law professor Doron M. Kalir in a guest column today.

Divisions tracing to this nation’s prolonged enslavement of other humans, and its failure to emancipate them into a just society of fair and equal laws, continue to bedevil us. But denial of the truth will never set us free. That’s why Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter’s Memorial Day speech deserves to be read -- and heard -- in full, writes Elizabeth Sullivan in a column today.

It’s been 75 years without another nuclear attack, even though nuclear weapons are spreading, and that’s something to celebrate. But remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in all their terrible detail is to understand that use of such weapons is unthinkable. That is the message that needs reinforcing, w…

This “America Abroad” column about the 2001 meeting of President George W. Bush and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Slovenia when Bush said he got a sense of Putin’s soul originally appeared on page B9 of The Plain Dealer. on June 7, 2007.

The original Plain Dealer news story about the 2001 encounter of President George W. Bush and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Slovenia, when Bush said he looked into Putin’s eyes and got a “sense of his soul.”

Should Ohio have a state dog? If so, is the Labrador retriever the best choice? And should Ohio lawmakers be spending some of their time on legislation designating things like state dogs and state pets? Join our curated Talk It Out conversation today.

Like other U.S. combat soldiers in Vietnam, Jim and Stan Parker fought with tenacity and wile in bloody, close-in combat during the Tet Offensive launched Jan. 31, 1968, yet faced opprobrium at home in the increasingly unpopular war, writes Elizabeth Sullivan.

What do you think about the GOP tax plan? Share your thoughts by joining a curated conversation from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. moderated by Elizabeth Sullivan for today's edition of "Talk It Out," a civil, moderated, constructive conversation.

They had fought and survived, and survival was part of the guilt. Then they came home, veterans of a deeply unpopular war, and there was no one to talk to about their Vietnam experiences, setting the stage, for some, for PTSD, writes Elizabeth Sullivan.