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Jeffrey Epstein: There’s much more to the story.

Epstein came to my attention when I was an investigative journalist for one of Columbus, Ohio's alternative newsweeklies, Columbus Alive. Not many people know that the infamous Jeffrey…

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The Crisis of Western Capitalism

The political and economic developments unfolding across Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world may represent more than a period of political instability or the…

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Bye Bye Bobo

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Solar News This Week - November 8, 2026

Rooftop solar and batteries could save the grid $614 billion

The power industry is spending billions building new plants and power lines for surging demand. But a new…

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Keep Comfest Alive

Keep ComFest Alive! For this generation and the next. Become a sustaining member at comfest.com/give.

ComFest started in 1972 at 16th and Waldeck in Columbus, Ohio, when a group of activists wanted to get the word out about what their community organizations had to offer. Many of the organizers were still in jail that weekend, arrested the day before while demonstrating against the war in Vietnam. Now, more than 50 years later, ComFest is one of the longest-running, volunteer-run community festivals in the…

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St. James Christian Center is Where It’s At

Headed by the spry, youthful and dynamic Bishop James DeLaney, the St. James Christian Center is located at 1358 Mt. Vernon Avenue in the historic neighborhood of Bronzeville just a stone’s throw from the OSU’s African American and African…

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Sonia Sotomayer

This battle for legal accountability

“I dissent a lot. I'm hoping that the court will take back some of the crazy things that it's done. I'm only joking — maybe not," Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a crowd recently. ​"No, seriously," she continued. "You know, I've spoken…

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America Has Room for Arab America

Erika Kirk attacked Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed for describing his home state of Michigan as the “Capital of Arab America.”

Does Ms. Kirk also want to rename Chinatown and Little Italy?

What's next? Will she demand that East…

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What comes with the decline in Trump’s power?

Trump’s power will be limited but not eliminated in January when Democrats take control of both houses of Congress. Democrats do not have the power to overcome Trump’s vetoes unless at least six Republicans and all Democrats in the…

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