Let’s be honest about what Ohioans want from the next secretary of state. They want someone who will protect their right to vote, not someone who spends every election cycle casting doubt on the ballot. They want an elections chief who understands that democracy is built on trust, and that trust has to be earned every single day. I’m Allison Russo. I’ve spent four terms in the Ohio House representing Upper Arlington, and I’m running for secretary of state because Ohio deserves a leader who puts voters first. That might seem like an obvious thing to say, but it’s not…

Few words in public health carry the weight of “plague.” It conjures medieval streets, beaked masks, and cities turned upside down by a disease that seemed to arrive with no warning and spare no one. So when a 28-year-old researcher at a plague institute in Siberia died of pneumonia that doctors could not explain, the world did not need much prompting to pay attention. The woman was employed in Irkutsk, a city in eastern Russia whose scientific institutions have long studied Yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind some of humanity’s most feared epidemics. She was diagnosed with a pneumonia of unknown…