The good guys won one in red Ohio! Here’s how it happened — Ohio Makes the News! Florida and Texas suck all that MAGA air out of the news, so the shenanigans that Republicans pull in Ohio seem to go under the radar much of the time. …

…And how to respond to them. — President Trump did nothing wrong! Read the indictment. It’s making free speech a crime. Umm….no. It’s true that Trump lied repeatedly and in many ways about the 2020 election. But he’s not being charged with lying. In fact, the indictment clearly tells us that the First Amendment protects Trump’s right to tell as many lies as he wants to. But telling…

States are outdoing each other in disenfranchising voters — Justice Louis Brandeis, in his dissent in the New Ice Co. v Leibman, told us that “States are the laboratory of democracy.” He made the point that states should be allowed to experiment with policies and programs without overzealous prior restraint on the part of the courts or the federal…

Conservative Justices Are Faking It — Originalists are running a con game that seeks to undermine the foundations of our institutions, indeed, of democracy itself. They want us to believe that they are simply “calling balls and strikes”, consulting only the original language of the Constitution (or the intent of the Framers as discerned through careful…

Interstates emptied downtowns. Now cities are suffering. — I live just a few miles from downtown Akron. I’ve lived in Akron for a decade. My work never took me downtown very often so I don’t have a good “pre Covid/post covid” comparison. I attended a three day convention a few weeks ago at Akron’s convention center. We were…

Leaders are bad at managing change. Chris Licht, lately of CNN, provides a recent example. — I tell my business school students at Kent State University that most corporate leaders are bad…very bad…at managing change. Research results vary but studies show that somewhere north of 70% of all change initiatives fail in one way or another. A great deal has been written as to the causes…

Why Are Progressive Pundits Unhappy that Trump Has Been Indicted? — Progressives seem never to be happy with good news. Back when the Biden/Harris ticket won the presidency, we were inundated with articles bemoaning the President’s and the Vice President’s alleged shortcomings. …

Republican race-baiting and gay-baiting reach new lows — Lying is the right wing’s default mode We know that dishonest narratives are the currency of Republicans. We see it in portraying the January 6 mob of right-wing terrorists as “tourists.” We see it in the claims that the East Palestine railway disaster was Pete Buttigieg’s fault. …

My state has become the Arkansas of the Great Lakes — Ohio was once thought to be a bellwether state with respect to presidential elections. “As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.” The implication was that Ohio was a moderate state whose voters were middle of the road, as likely to vote for one party as the other. Just over sixteen…