By LISA SONG, ProPublica; In just two weeks, Donald Trump has made drastic changes to the Environmental Protection Agency. Here’s how they could impact efforts to reform toxic hot spots across the U.S. and who will be left to safeguard these communities.

Well, here we are—Crunch Time! It’s become a drag to think about/listen to/research/opine on the distance between Rs and Ds, and how massive the differences have become. If I have to read …

As with every state in the union, Ohio has been scene to tragic violence. From historic attempts to erase indigenous peoples, to deadly race riots, to the unprovoked murders of four Kent State …

Donald Trump said he wants the government or insurers to pay for in vitro fertilization treatments. For those lacking coverage, the American taxpayer would presumably pick up the entire cost.  …

The formal term for what the Trump Cult has visited upon the Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio, is “blood libel.” Although foreigners and outsiders have doubtless been blamed for …

When my dad moved to southwest Ohio in the early 1970s, the Dayton-Springfield area’s second city was home to over 80,000 people. When I was growing up nearby in the 1990s, it was 70,000. …

There is no bottom to Donald Trump’s Republican Party. And his running mate is digging further.                         …

Baraboo, Wisconsin, is known as the former home of the Ringling Bros. Circus’ headquarters. But even that extravaganza of acrobats and clowns could not surpass the dazzling tent show playing …

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and has written eloquently on human rights for many years. But recently Kristof said Democrats shouldn’t …

After a year of controversy over LGBTQ book displays, county commissioners in a small North Carolina town began proceedings to withdraw their public library from the regional system, a move that …

I’ ve rarely been taken to task, by friends or readers, for the kind of maudlin, low- rent patriotism that fuels alt-right pseudo-populism and spawns grotesque politicians like Donald Trump. …

There’s a tape that both the defense and the prosecution played in summations in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial. In it, you can hear the chaos of Trump’s office at …

The energy and idealism of college students is a precious resource in the risk-taking vanguard of major political movements and changes. Problems occur when youthful enthusiasm is peer-pressured and …

One group of oppressed Americans has become especially outspoken this election year, contending that top government officials (Democrats in particular) are ignoring their community’s basic …

Dear Mr. President: Japan decimated our television industry in the 1970s by dumping television sets below cost and driving most American manufacturers out of business. During the late 1980s …

This story was originally published by ProPublica . Time and again over the last two years, parents and protesters have derailed school board meetings across the country. Once considered tame, …