Last week, MetroNews’ Mike Nolting caught up with college officials around the region as they prepare to implement campus carry next July. So now seems as good a time as […]
Opinion
Gun case forces Supreme Court to confront its own illogic
by Noah Feldman The good news is that the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision that said police can’t confiscate guns from domestic abusers. The […]
Bills keep piling up for Justice family businesses
The Gazette-Mail’s Mike Tony reported this week that BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Company has asked a federal court to fine one of Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies $2,500 a day for […]
Start the holiday season with a visit to the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree
One can hardly blame us if we’ve begun to sing “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas …” under our breath. Between stores making the instantaneous switch from spooky […]
Has Ukraine war reached a stalemate?
by Daniel DePetris Last August, more than two months after Ukraine began its counteroffensive against Russian positions in the east, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan was asked about whether […]
Time to face political truths on immigration
While campaigning in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley was asked about the surge of migrants at the border. “When I’m president,” the former Republican governor of South Carolina said, “we’re going […]
Richwood Avenue: A new kind of neighborhood?
It’s exciting when projects finally move from the ephemeral world of planning to the tangible world of doing. And the Richwood Avenue development is finally ready to make that transition. […]
How did Silicon Valley fall from idealism to ruthless exploitation?
by LZ Granderson Adam Bowen and James Monsees — the focus of the Netflix docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” — originally set out to make the […]
Matthew Perry and the cult of celebrity
I never saw an episode of “Friends,” but that is probably because I am from the television era that began with black-and-white pictures and television screens so small you had […]
Fed is right to stay the course on interest rates
Last week, the Federal Reserve did the right thing by leaving well enough alone, keeping the benchmark interest rate at about 5.4%. With the acute pressure that the board and […]
