Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
This story has been updated with additional comment from the Ohio Ethics Commission. Financial disclosures filed by Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted with the Ohio Ethics Commission show that the quasi-private economic development entity JobsOhio gave gifts to Husted in 2021, 2022, and 2023 when he was lieutenant governor. The gifts could have been […]
The Heights Coalition for Public Education is a grassroots organization formed in 2014 by public education activists in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights (CHUH) school district. Like most taxpayers across Ohio, we want our public schools to excel so that our children, economy, and democracy can thrive. Our focus is state policies that impact the ability […]
Ohio officials can continue using a new proof of citizenship requirement for people who register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. In a divided ruling, The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower court order on Wednesday. It comes less than two weeks before Ohio’s voter registration deadline. Under 2025’s Ohio House […]
Ohio Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy introduced his plan Wednesday for a 90-day gas tax holiday. It comes on the heels of Democratic candidate Amy Acton calling for a similar halt to the tax. Ramaswamy insisted his proposal is different because he’s working with the legislature “to lead through action rather than through tweets […]
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
We speak with journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed, whose new book, Crossing the Red Line, looks at how President Joe Biden and top figures in his administration supported Israel’s brutal war in Gaza despite the soaring death toll and growing alarm over widespread war crimes committed by the Israeli military. “The policies that we’ve seen entrenched […]
At the United Nations this week, President Trump repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. The United States earlier this year imposed sanctions on the president of the ICC and a senior prosecutor who was part of the team that issued an arrest […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a half-empty chamber at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, after dozens of delegations walked out in protest at the start of his speech. Netanyahu assailed his critics as “antisemites,” defended his country’s conduct in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria, and lavished praise on President Trump […]
Over 100 protesters were arrested near the United Nations in New York on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly. The sit-in, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, denounced Netanyahu for perpetrating a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, building more illegal settlements in the West Bank, occupying parts of […]
Dozens of U.N. Delegates Walk Out in Protest as Israel’s Netanyahu Addresses General Assembly, Over 100 Protesters Arrested Outside U.N. Demanding Arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu, Separatists Attack Government Forces in Ethiopia’s Worst Fighting Since 2022 Ceasefire, Opposition Groups Protest in Caracas as Venezuela’s Leader Promises Elections at the “Right Moment”, U.S. Senate Defeats Iran War […]
“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’re angry at what they see as the excesses of woke culture and liberal and lefty politics. … And […]
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