The “Hillbilly Elegy” author spent the first week of his campaign apologizing for his past criticism of Trump. He’s going to have to grovel even more if he hopes to defeat the Forever Trumpers he’s up against.

I am a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become.

No Republican president has ever won the White House without carrying the Buckeye state.

Denying people the vote is presumed—wrongly—to be part of the deprivation of being locked up.

Ohio has a reputation for moderation. But moderation in the Trump era has an entirely different meaning.

A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.

The George Floyd protests have spread to the heavily white areas of rural Ohio. Only time will tell whether the alliance will last.

If American and tribal governments take drug companies to court and settle, the money should actually be used to combat addiction.

With General Motors workers on strike since mid-September, a labor union in Ohio votes on a controversial contract.

"Felony murder" laws across America are being used to charge juveniles with crimes they didn't commit.

The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.

Republican attempts at voter suppression have inspired a movement to restore and expand access to the polls.

A Republican "autopsy" of 2018 losses in Wisconsin shows a party struggling to reconcile racist policies with midwestern politics.

The goal of the wave of anti-abortion laws in America is to put female sexuality under strict and brutal state control.

Georgia's "fetal heartbeat" bill never would have passed if the state legislature truly reflected the voters' political preferences.

New Jersey is the latest state to subsidize aging reactors with credits designated for clean energy.

The former vice president thinks his appeal with white working-class voters makes him the best Democrat to take on Trump. He's mistaken.

When Chad Baker died from a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin, prosecutors charged Tommy Kosto, his friend and fellow drug user, with killing him—a tactic from the Reagan-era war on drugs that is gaining popularity around the country and making today's opioid crisis even worse.

Not since the Tea Party wave in 2009 has America seen such widespread grassroots activism.

The influential congressman is among a wave of Democrats running for attorney general to take on Trump directly.