by Nicholas Goldberg It was highly amusing to watch then-Congressman-elect George Santos ducking and weaving to avoid the media scrum on his first day on Capitol Hill. Darting in and […]
Opinion
The super-duper majorities in the W.Va. Legislature
The 2023 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature began this week with the Republicans in absolute control of the agenda. The 2022 election and party switches have given the […]
Tale of 2 presidents and terrible storage
This week, it was revealed that President Joe Biden’s personal lawyers discovered some Obama-era classified documents in an office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a […]
House GOP’s first order of business? Balloon the $31 trillion national debt
by Thomas Kahn Republicans have long claimed they are dedicated deficit hawks, blaming Democrats for growing deficits and debt. But two votes they cast after electing Kevin McCarthy as House […]
Biden’s border policies: better but not good enough
Joe Biden has done so many things well — saving Ukraine, confronting China, signing a bipartisan gun control bill. And in a week of right-wing crazytown, he stood out as […]
History doesn’t repeat — it rhymes
As the idiom goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat. But history never really repeats — it rhymes. The players change, as do the locations. […]
Abortion pills in pharmacies are the future
by Ushma D. Upadhyay On Jan. 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a first step toward making abortion pills available at retail pharmacies. It released new rules outlining […]
Barn doors and horses
After months of ignoring the problem and demonstrably false claims by his Homeland Security secretary that the southern border is “secure,” President Biden is finally visiting the area this week […]
The ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions case wraps up
The former college admissions consultant who cooked up a multimillion-dollar scheme to fraudulently admit kids of wealthy clients, including Hollywood celebrities, into elite U.S. colleges was sentenced to 3 1/2 […]
Climate change lies is its own industry
by T. Nelson Thompson Over the holidays too many years ago, when I was little more than a toddler, I was caught in a baldfaced lie after having exhausted the […]
