by Trudy Rubin When President Joe Biden urged world leaders last Tuesday not to diminish support for Ukraine, he used a phrase whose importance you may have missed. Speaking at […]
Opinion
Supreme Court oral arguments have gotten way too long
by Chad Flanders Supreme Court oral arguments have gotten too long. How do I know this? It used to be that during one of my longer morning runs, I could […]
Inmates are still people
Alleged abuse at Hazelton must be investigated Most everything we’ve seen in the headlines recently related to jails has been about the (still ongoing) staffing crisis. But Hazelton federal prison […]
Sept. 24 letters to the editor
Value of higher ed underestimated West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair recently wrote in regard to the faculty and staff cuts being pushed through at WVU despite mass protests from […]
Rules exist for a reason
“Republic” refers to a government in which citizens elect representatives to govern according to the law. Thus, the supreme power of a democratic republic resides not in the legislative body, […]
Trump is rotten. But that doesn’t mean he should be kicked off the ballot
by Mark Z. Barabak Donald Trump is a cancer on the body politic, a malignant tumor of a man who turns just about everything he touches into rot. He’s coarsened […]
The mystery of the missing F-35
by Byron York It was one of the weirdest stories in years. The U.S. military lost a state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jet, last seen flying pilotless over North Charleston, S.C., and […]
Women’s reproductive freedom is moving backward
by Lilian Bui “We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come.” That quote from Barbie creator Ruth Handler — or at least […]
India needs to stop the bleeding from Canada killing
by Mihir Sharma Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s dramatic statement in parliament that there were “credible allegations” Indian intelligence was behind the murder of a radical Sikh activist in British […]
‘Greedflation’ theory no longer the fringe
“Greedflation” is an economic theory that emerged around 2021 as an explanation for the sky-high inflation we were experiencing. At first, even mainstream economists considered greedflation a left-wing fringe theory, […]
