I’ve long considered Athens my adopted hometown. My heart is in these hills. Years before I stepped foot on the Ohio University campus as a wi…
In nearly 15 years writing news, one of the most gut-wrenching, powerful stories I’ve ever covered happened this past January when I interview…
President Donald Trump promised over and over he would not cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. He even boldly told the conservative Her…
Taking up the subject of the love affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings impels one first to make two stipulations before the discu…
I enjoy falling asleep listening to people much smarter than I am telling me stories about history.
Thoughtful, studied consideration does not reign supreme in American politics, and frankly, I can’t think of an era it did. Conversely, I also…
1. The cost of higher education has risen dramatically over the last 50 years. A four-year, full-time public university, including tuition, fe…
Around and around we go. Where will it stop? It won't.
Hot on the heels of my report this past week that online for-profit charter schools are taking more than $1.4 million out of public school dis…
All the times I've met U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Cincinnati, he's seemed like a reasonable man. Sure, he's always been solidly Republican and w…
The minimum wage debate seems to be once again raging.
The legend goes that Lyndon Baines Johnson, during a brutal 1948 race for U.S. Senate, instructed his campaign manager to begin spreading a ru…
With 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. of A. has nearly a quarter of the world's prisoners.
You can't say the late Gore Vidal hadn't been warning us for many years. The man famously characterized himself as the master of the obvious, …
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir recently wrote a piece titled, "America: Stupidly stuck between religion and science," in which he makes the capital mi…
The Supreme Court of the United States just managed to make their Citizens United decision worse. We have Anthony Kennedy to thank for both.
I suppose that as long as the American people keep electing Congressmen as fantastically ignorant as U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, I'll ha…
On Fox's Cosmos last night, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson explained the speed of light, and how, if the universe were only 6,000 years ol…
It took exactly three days for Al Jazeera America to deliver its first big disappointment to me.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your shame of the day:
The reason for that is two-fold: First, House Republicans will patently to even read the proposal much less move on it. Second, Congress agree…
Well, jeez boys, it's nice of you to provide us a blueprint this time around. This way we know exactly what the crazy-and-dangerous soup du jo…
Revisionist history is nothing new, but when every possible line that could tell the tale is written directly into the confederacy's declarati…
The central absurdity is this: These "religious freedom restoration" bills are widely known to be little more than an excuse for anti-gay disc…
There seems to be some fuss on the electrick Intertoobz today over some speech the President gave last night.
There seems to be some fuss on the electrick Intertoobz today over some speech the President gave last night.
My heart pumps Ohio pride through my veins and arteries with every beat, but today I found out a number that I had been dreading to know becau…