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 commentary was originally published in the West Virginia Watch. The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia announced a lawsuit last week over the unconstitutional underfunding of public schools. I’m not exaggerating when I say this may be the most important case we have filed in my 10 years with this organization. The promise […]
As studies show improvements in access to abortion care in Ohio, abortion opponents both in and outside of the state legislature are attempting to bring more regulations against it. An multiyear assessment called the Reproductive Health Experiences and Access Study found that access to abortion care has improved in Ohio, based on interviews with policymakers, […]
Ohio Democratic candidate for governor Dr. Amy Acton and Ohio Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur have faced backlash from comments they have made about transgender people during the lead up to Election Day. Acton said she agreed with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying its constitutional for states to ban transgender women and girls from […]
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors “like her.” As it turns out, she isn’t from Ohio and didn’t have surgery until she was an adult. The Senate Leadership Fund, one of the main groups supporting Republicans, has created multiple ads […]
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 […]
In a victory for environmentalists and immigration rights’ advocates, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, has blocked further border wall construction inside Big Bend National Park. “We slammed the brakes on $7 billion worth of corrupt construction contracts,” says Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, which sued […]
We go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the site of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. Health authorities believe the outbreak first began in January but was not detected until May, in part due to cuts in global health investments, like the dismantling of USAID. Since then, over 8,000 cases have been recorded, […]
Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed today amid massive student-led protests over school funding and inequality. The demonstrations began in September at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats, falling debris and more. But the […]
Supreme Court Case Will Determine Whether State and Local Governments Can Sue for Climate Harms, Pentagon Says Latest Boat Strike Killed Four Narcotraffickers, Provides No Evidence, Turkey and Pakistan to Send Troops to Saudi Arabia as Yemeni Government Forces Battle Houthis, Trump Defends Decision to Attack Iran, Says “Let Them Take Out” Los Angeles and […]
We speak with Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro after he was detained at an Israeli military base for seven hours on Friday. Amro, the founder of the Hebron-based group Youth Against Settlements, was helping a Palestinian family that he says had been attacked by armed Israeli settlers at their farmhouse outside Hebron in the […]
Revelations of sexual assault at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 and how the university responded have sparked national outrage, reigniting a public debate about “the extent to which fraternities, the extent to which athletics really support this kind of culture that allows perpetrators to escape with little or no accountability,” says law professor Deborah […]
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