by Matthew Yglesias A string of positive economic news — slowing inflation, an upward revision in gross domestic product, continued strength in the job market, signs of a nascent surge […]
Opinion
Salango’s exit from governor’s race clears the way for Williams
The decision by Kanawha County Commissioner Ben Salango not to enter the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2024 offers insight into just how challenging the political landscape […]
Biden’s student debt overreach
Supreme Court had no choice but to knock down loan forgiveness program On the economic merits, we support President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student […]
‘Bomb the Mexicans’ new ‘Build the Wall’
by Jean Guerrero When then-President Donald Trump proposed shooting migrants in the legs and firing missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs, he did so in private. Republican politicians are […]
Do we really need to travel?
I have friends who routinely ask where I’ve traveled of late and where I plan to go next. The answer is that, except for a recent trip to New York, […]
Founders knew the value of free press
In addition to being the revolutionaries who demanded independence from Great Britain and the visionaries who drafted the Constitution, many of America’s Founding Fathers were journalists. Some owned and published […]
Tragedy of capsized migrants barely noticed amid loss of Titan
by Lauren Sowers I know what it’s like to wait for someone lost at sea. When I was 20 years old, working at a music cafe in Charleston, S.C., I […]
A step toward true equality: Supreme Court ends affirmative action
It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action […]
Editorial Encore: 247 years of trying to deliver on ideals
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s editorial has been adapted from one that was originally published July 4, 2021. “Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It […]
Republicans promoting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are playing with fire
by Jonathan Bernstein Nominations define parties. But what we’re seeing in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s futile challenge to President Joe Biden is an odd situation in which a nomination skirmish […]
