COLUMBUS, Ohio — On a recent afternoon, April Polk was driving to a doctor's appointment when her assistant flagged something in her business inbox: a grant application, the kind of funding opportunity a small retailer cannot afford to miss. The assistant offered to fill it out while she ...

It's easy to forget that Americans are voting in a year that marks the 250th anniversary of the nation's Declaration of Independence. You don't hear much about the declaration in the campaign rhetoric, and most people would bristle at the notion that the sublime message of the founding document ...

Today is Tuesday, November 3. That should ring a bell, especially if you receive land mail, spend time online, watch TV, listen to the radio or are plugged into the world in any way at all. Today is Election Day. It’s the day candidates have anticipated with an emotional mix of hope, dread, ...

America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars have ...

With Election Day just around the corner, we are all being inundated with campaign messaging, either through direct communication like text messages and emails or through advertising. It's nothing unusual. In fact, it's so common that most of us probably barely give it much thought (although ...

During the summer, I drove with my family across a few states for a family church event. A sign I saw gave me hope: "No Kings on Sovereign Land." We often have political discussions in our family, with the passion of others who have fought hard for women's rights and voting It is ever more ...