Extreme Weather Is Creating American Climate Refugees
Devastating floods have swept through Midwestern states including Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas this week, causing damage…
Devastating Floods Are Breaking Records in Nebraska
Amid a news week packed with presidential candidacy announcements and horrific mass murders, devastating flooding in…
Wow, Look at All These Great Ideas Bernie Had
CNN’s KFILE has a new story out today about the early career of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who’s currently hovering near the…
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry's Chief of Staff Threatened a Professor Over Liking a Defaced Sign on Facebook
This week, what began as an innocent Facebook like ended with Ari Kohen, an associate professor at the University of…
Trying to Beat Republicans in the Midwest With Different Shades of Blue
OMAHA—The Rotary Club of Downtown Omaha is not the kind of place where you expect to hear a politician talk about the…
Ben Sasse Is Being a Real Ben Sassehole About Brett Kavanaugh
If there’s one voice that definitely needed to be heard in the middle of the fight over whether or not to believe the mu…
Democrats Are Running—and Winning—on a Medicare for All Platform
Earlier this month, Kara Eastman beat out her Democratic primary opponent to represent the Omaha, Nebraska, area in the…
Nebraska Professors Say the Governor and His GOP Cronies Are Waging War Over Lecturer Calling Student 'Fascist'
In August, a graduate student and lecturer in the University of Nebraska’s English department called a student who was…
I used to vote in red states like Arizona. Now I vote in New York—and I feel terrible
When you grow up with a mother who used military service to escape an oppressively small town, you absorb a lot of…
This former death row inmate has a powerful message for Nebraskans voting on the death penalty
When the Nebraska legislature voted to ban the death penalty last year, criminal justice reformers around the country…
I’m a progressive feminist. So why can’t I leave the Catholic Church?
At the end of the film "Spotlight," the audience is confronted with a seemingly endless list of locations. It’s the…
A drunk woman broke into a zoo to pet a tiger and guess what? The tiger bit her
It takes a precise amount of intoxication to be impaired enough to think petting a tiger is a good and actionable idea,…
Bay Area woman hires private eye to track down her missing cat in Nebraska
Riley McDermid of Vallejo, Ca., is very clear she isn't super into cats. "I've never been super into cats," McDermid…
Omaha school board meeting on sex ed gets rowdy, ends in fistfight
Who would've guessed a topic like sexual education would be so controversial in Nebraska?