Marilou Johanek is an award-winning journalist and columnist with decades of experience covering Ohio politics and policy. Her sharp commentary and analysis illuminate the forces shaping our democracy.
Years before JD Vance became a cynical shapeshifter willing to say anything for personal ambition and power, he told me working class people in Ohio “have felt invisible for a…
When signs went up at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, following the Orwellian executive order issued by Donald Trump last year to sanitize the darker chapters of American history chronicled at…
When you fill up your tank with regular, unleaded gas pushing $5 bucks a gallon or pump diesel into your truck closing in on $6 per gallon, think ballrooms. It’s…
Ohio’s state treasurer, Robert Sprague, is a term-limited Republican musical chair politician who hopes to grab another statewide seat for himself as secretary of state — if he gets past…
In a surprise 5-1 ruling, Ohio's Republican-majority Supreme Court scrapped a 70-year ban on judges endorsing political candidates — a decision critics say was made without briefing, public input, or a request from either party in the case.
JD Vance traveled to Budapest to endorse authoritarian Viktor Orban days before Hungary's election. Voters handed Orban a landslide defeat. A look at Vance's embrace of illiberal democracy and the Thiel-backed New Right vision behind it.
In the 2024 presidential election, over 55% of Ohioans voted for a twice impeached convicted felon whose conspiracy to steal the election he lost in 2020 culminated in a violent…
Despite Ohio voters enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution in 2023, Republican lawmakers are advancing a wave of bills — including 24-hour waiting periods and abortion pill restrictions — that critics say directly contradict the amendment's protections.
Under intense pressure from a desperate and vindictive boss, U.S. Senate Republicans, including Ohio U.S. Sens. Jon Husted and Bernie Moreno, are frantically spinning a radical voter suppression bill as…
If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, your personally identifiable information like full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers may…
If every state representative or state senator in Ohio had to receive more than 50% of all votes cast in an election to win, would the General Assembly have gutted…
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