Here is a humanized summary of the Iranian spokesman’s statement, expanded into a reflective six-paragraph essay. — There are moments in history when the truth becomes a casualty of the very stories we tell ourselves to survive. The recent statement from Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei cuts to the heart of this tragedy, stripping away the polished jargon of geopolitics to reveal something far older and more sinister. In a post on X, accompanied by a video chronicling decades of American and Israeli covert actions, Baqaei distilled the entire logic of modern political warfare into a single, devastating sentence:…

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…