A year to the day after kicking off his victorious re-election campaign on this college campus, President Barack Obama returned to Ohio State University and told graduates that only through vigorous participation in their democracy can they right an ill-functioning government and break through relentless cynicism about the nation's future. ...

Rejecting the expansion of health care coverage for more low-income Ohioans will mean the loss of $700 million over the next two years for medical care and treatment programs for people with mental illness or substance abuse problems, the governor’s administration says. ...

Renowned surgeon Dr. Ben Carson is the latest conservative hero for those on the right wing seeking their own African American alternative to President Obama. ...

The Voting Rights Act was necessitated by years of post-civil war disenfranchisement of black citizens’ rights. In the southern states, would be black voters risked a brutal form of death for having the audacity of trying to exercise their rights as citizens. ...

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West Wing Week ...