Obesity is a major risk factor for those dying from the coronavirus.

Although it will undoubtedly be different this year, the majority of people in the United States will celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, from Dec. 10-18, or Christmas, commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, on Dec. 25. The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, provides an opportunity for you to […]

I encourage you to make time and find health insurance if you don’t already have it, or review your current plan if you do.

A Chinese foreign ministry official recently tweeted a photo showing an Australian special operations soldier in Afghanistan holding a knife to the throat of a child.

Analysts of higher-education trends are predicting that the aftermath of COVID-19 may bring the closure of hundreds of colleges, perhaps 10 to 20% of our 4,200 or so colleges.

No institution lasts forever. They get too old, too big, too tired. Eventually, they outlive their usefulness and forget their original purpose. When that happens, the best thing you can do for them is pull the plug. It’s time to pull the plug on the Republican Party. Because, let’s face it, the Republican Party we […]

Some people can’t handle success. The latest jobs report shows that despite the pandemic, President Trump’s policies of lower taxes and reducing regulations continue to work. Raising taxes and imposing regulations, as Joe Biden has pledged to do, has historically had the opposite effect, but there are people who continue to deny the history, believe […]

One of Joe Biden’s first priorities as president will be to risk stoking a new migrant crisis. After much trial and error, President Donald Trump came up with cooperative arrangements with Mexico and Central American countries that drastically diminished the pressure from asylum-seekers on our southern border. Biden is pledged to overturn these policies, as […]

And so this is Christmas. So sang John Lennon in 1971. The Vietnam War took 2,414 American lives that year, so the song was a prayer of harmony and peace with a scrim of irony. Nor did the irony end there. Lennon was shot to death nine years later, 40 years ago Dec. 8. And […]

“If you start monetizing the value of the art on the walls, it raises a whole host of problems and leads to a slippery slope,” Laurence Eisenstein, a leading critic, said. “Next time the state or city are thinking about giving money to the museum, it leads to people asking questions like ‘Why don’t you sell some works?'”