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Ohio governor, advocates, defend the state’s child care system amid Minnesota fraud claims
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and local advocates are defending Ohio’s child care system after comments from the Trump administration accusing another state of child care fraud.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said states…
Clay Jones: Best of 2025
For the most part, 2025 was a very good year for me. I took a trip to Chicago, and I saw the Cubs. I spent a couple of weeks with good friends in Southern California and got to see pelicans and sea lions. I went to Boston and attended the…
You Need to Understand the Supreme Court’s “Shadow Docket”
This article first appeared on OtherWorlds.org.
If you want to understand how the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority has undermined democracy, you need to understand the “shadow docket.”
The shadow docket — as the court’s emergency…
Smartphones, the New Opiate of the People
Karl Marx has been famously quoted as referring to religion as the opiate of the masses. His point being that religion, offering a future, better life in the by and by, narcotized people to endure the difficulty of their lives and work, rather…