Asking President Donald Trump how he feels about “white privilege” is sort of like asking a young fish how it feels about water. As the late author David Foster Wallace […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Do you believe in climate change yet?
Have you looked at the sun this week? Which you really shouldn’t do, because it can damage your eyes, but some of us fools have done it anyway. […]
Woodward rides again — but what did he actually get?
On hearing that President Trump sat for 18 interviews with Bob Woodward of The Washington Post my first reaction was “what the…” Why Woodward? There can only be two reasons. […]
Politics and police unions stopped bills
It wasn’t good government. But it was probably good politics. A major police reform bill was quietly killed by the California Assembly speaker without a house vote on the last […]
When neo-Nazis show up to social justice marches
Forty people showed up for a Black Lives Matter march in Kingwood over the weekend. Sixty people showed up in opposition. Both sides brought guns. One guy came wearing a […]
Trump’s many lies no longer shock us. How sad is that?
We weren’t going to normalize this. Remember that? Remember the way many of us solemnly vowed we would always maintain the ability to be outraged, hold on to our capacity […]
Making Trump’s misogyny ‘presidential’
E. Jean Carroll’s account of the time Donald Trump allegedly raped her in a department store in the 1990s is highly specific and amply corroborated. It’s also harrowing. In her […]
The university is to Morgantown as the Vatican is to Rome
“The university is devoted to being a good citizen,” Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia University, said when he sat down (virtually) with members of The Dominion Post Editorial Board […]
Biden needs to fine-tune his message on Cuba the way Kerry has
Democratic candidate Joe Biden desperately needs to correct his message to Miami’s Cuban American voters if he wants to carry this crucial state on the Nov. 3. Some of his […]
In a ‘Twilight Zone’ of our own making
The Bay Area wasn’t in end times Wednesday. It only looked like it, with orange skies creating an eerie, perpetual dusk. Car headlights were still needed at high noon. But […]
