The executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council reflects on how a Jewish liberal ended up winning a U.S. Senate seat in the conservative hub of Ohio. WASHINGTON (JTA) – I vividly ...

I vividly recall the last time I underestimated Howard Metzenbaum. It was the beginning of 1976, and I predicted Metzenbaum would lose his third consecutive attempt to be elected to the U.S. Senate ...

No wonder so many people discouraged Diemer from writing a biography of the man, who died in March at age 90. But covering Capitol Hill for The Plain Dealer during Metzenbaum's second and third Senate ...

He was called many names during his 19 years in the Senate: a tiger, a curmudgeon, a flaming liberal, a pain in the neck, and worse. As Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum's legislative career neared a close, ...

When the Democratic Party was being remade in the 1980s and early 1990s as the second party of Wall Street, Howard Metzenbaum fought to defend the liberal values of Franklin Roosevelt and the New ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A sidebar in the Mother Jones‘ story had caused the sudden resignation during the ...

Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who was a feisty self-made millionaire before he began a long career fighting big business in the Senate, died Wednesday night. He was 90. Limited time: ...

The recent passing of former Ohio Sen. Howard Metzenbaum brought back some poignant memories for me. In 1974, I was an idealistic young woman from Ohio University who had the opportunity to work for ...

Howard M. Metzenbaum, Democrat, former senator from Ohio, died Wednesday in Florida at the age of 90. His obituary in today’s Washington Post quotes Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) calling ...

WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who was a feisty self-made millionaire before he began a long career fighting big business in the Senate, died Wednesday night. He was 90.

John Glenn in 2012 (left) and Howard Metzenbaum in 2008. There has never been a relationship in the history of Ohio politics like the often-prickly, always competitive one of John H. Glenn Jr. and ...