Dona t throw a fit if your candidate loses

I do not know if American democracy will survive this bizarre election year, but if it does not make it, I can predict the cause of death. The smoking gun will be the growing, highly toxic, self-serving, and baseless belief that whenever one's favored candidate, party or issue loses an election, it must be because "the system" was "rigged" by the winning side.

The photo of Omarn Daqnesh challenges us to not turn our backs on the war in Syria.

JE SUIS OMRAN. Somewhere on the Internet there must be such a meme - a photo of Omran Daqneesh, the 5-year-old Syrian boy pulled from rubble in Aleppo, emblazoned with that familiar tag, "Je suis ..." "I am" has become the preface to tragedy, most often a massacre, like the one at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, but not always.

Should ISIS be wiped out?

What can we say? The only certain thing is that Ayatollah Khamenei is watching this quintessentially Western open debate with amusement. The most conservative Iranian newspaper, Kayhan, which is considered the mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday led with a most unusual front page headline: "A Zionist think tank leader says Islamic State is useful in the battle against Iran.

Ohio voters ought to pay closer attention to judges close to home: Thomas Suddes

More Ohio voters ought to pay attention to the state Supreme Court as these young Ohioans are doing during a tour of the Ohio Supreme Court building. Here's what's supposed to be the capstone argument of Donald Trump's ever-shrinking cult: "It's the Supreme Court, stupid."