by Gene Collier William Barr took another spin through the news cycle last week, and though it wasn’t anywhere near as uplifting as his star turn before […]
Opinion
How Justice and Senate Republicans get to ‘yes’
Gov. Jim Justice wants to negotiate. The West Virginia governor said on Talkline Wednesday that he is ready and willing to try to get a deal with […]
What Tyre Nichols’ death tells us about policing in America
Memphis’ police chief said video of the Jan. 10 beating by five police officers that killed 29-year-old Tyre Nichols included “acts that defy humanity.” We had fair […]
Winning GOP strategy in 2024: Back to business with immigration reform
by Neil Hare The recent GOP attacks on the business community, including its leading advocacy group the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, arguably contributed to a poor showing […]
Why not Pete Buttigieg?
Political news pounces on any poll suggesting Republicans’ preference for the 2024 presidential candidate. Little attention has landed on the Democratic side, where the numbers have been […]
Legislature attacks public education
The hyper-conservative Legislature has resumed the attack it started last year on West Virginia’s public schools. Some attacks are more subtle than others, but most of them […]
Business the most trusted institution?
by Nicholas Goldberg You’d think that people would have learned their lesson after years of financial industry gimmickry, corporate tax avoidance and mistreatment of workers. You’d think […]
Scandal? What scandal?
In our relativistic age in which everyone has his or her own “truth” and none is to be preferred over another so long as the individual feels […]
‘Fair Tax’ won’t pass, but debate an ominous omen about McCarthy
There is a 0% chance that a proposal to eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with a massive national sales tax will even get out […]
DeSantis gets colleges to vow not to teach things they weren’t teaching
by Scott Maxwell Florida has become the land of boogeymen — the place where politicians whip up fictional foes to stir hysteria among gullible followers and then […]