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 […]
Several of Ohio’s GOP Congressmen swung through Columbus recently to tout the importance of permitting reform. With data centers driving demand for power and an ocean of natural gas beneath our feet, they argued, federal red tape can’t be the bottle neck delaying new pipelines and transmission lines from getting built. “We can have all […]
Five Haitians from Springfield, Ohio have been deported back to Haiti after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status, said Theresa Hice-Fromille, a board member of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center. More than 470 people have been deported from the United States to Haiti between Aug. 20- Sept. 17 — including some with […]
Women — especially women of color — continue to lag average Americans in measures of wealth and wellness. But when it comes to tracking how Ohio women are doing in the aftermath of last year’s deep cuts to the social safety net, people who study the issue say they’re flying blind. That’s because the Census […]
Let’s take a quick look at where the race for Ohio Governor stands. But first, a caveat. This is not a prediction about who will win the November 3 election. Polls are not predictions, and the BGSU Poll is no different from any others in that way. Instead, surveys are a snapshot of where we think likely […]
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 […]
As we continue our coverage on the rise of right-wing political parties across Europe, we speak to Wiebke Judith from the German organization for asylum seekers’ rights, PRO ASYL, about Germany’s far-right party Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, and its recent wins in September’s state elections. Judith calls the historic wins — won by margins […]
Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman is in Berlin, Germany, this week, where the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech is shaped by the German policy of Staatsräson, or “reason of state.” The concept refers to Germany's commitment to the existence of the Israeli state in light of the Holocaust. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in […]
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence. “Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems,” Gebru says tech leaders like SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s […]
Tennessee Halts Executions as Condemned Prisoner Christa Pike Survives Lethal Injections, Hegseth Announces “AutoWarCom” to Oversee Autonomous Drones and Robots, Judge Orders Pentagon to Provide Rationale for Lethal Boat Strikes, Passengers and Crew Say Pilot Tried to Crash Airliner Bound for Israel, Palestinians Hold Mass Funeral in Gaza for 105 People Killed by Israel, Cambridge […]
Eight decades after the Nuremberg trials against Nazi war criminals, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court, primarily over the tribunal’s pursuit of Israeli leaders for war crimes committed in Gaza. In his recent address to the United Nations, President Donald Trump called the ICC a “rogue institution” and […]
We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his new memoir, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention. It details his 104 days of detention inside a Louisiana ICE jail after he was targeted for arrest and deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Palestine campus advocacy at Columbia University. Khalil missed the birth […]
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