Saturday, November 14, 2026
The Lorain County Administration Building in Elyria, Ohio, where the county commissioners meet and striking Job and Family Services workers have picketed. Photo by WeaponizingArchitecture / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lorain County caseworkers reach day 180 of a strike over a dollar an hour

Union officials told the bargaining chair the walkout may be the longest in Ohio public sector history, a claim the county's newspaper could not confirm. Commissioners point to an $11 million deficit.

Activists demand climate refugees be recognized

Campaign for legal recognition of climate refugees would be a long struggle.

Big Man politics, Africa to America

“Elect a Congress and Senate of Democrats next fall. Articles of impeachment are already in hand.”

Thousands of Native American children will lose health insurance

If Children’s health is no longer funded (because Congress did not reauthorize the legislation) then the Indian Health Service will have to make up the difference.

Why Mitch McConnell’s refusal to help states with pandemic costs is morally bankrupt

McConnell is focused on one thing—capitalizing on the crisis at the expense of working Americans.

An election in danger?

Even if we get through the 2024 election cycle intact and violence-free, the task of election reform remains both essential and, sadly, all too ignored.

Spending unlimited

Isn’t it time to end the national-security version of spending unlimited in Washington?

‘House Democrats must not delay’: Progressives, 2020 contenders demand Kavanaugh impeachment amid new sexual...

"Confirmation is not exoneration. Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Donald Trump is the fakest (and realest) news of all

After all—god save us—he might even find himself in the White House for a second term (if the coronavirus or Bernie Sanders doesn’t take him down first).

Why student body presidents are calling on Biden to eliminate student loan debt

President Biden promised student debt relief. He has the power to fulfill this promise and make a difference in millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.