Yesterday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate, in a 53-47 vote, to take over for Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires this summer. It was a rare […]
Opinion
April 8 letters to the editor
‘Lend Your Leg’ Day for awareness of landmines As members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC), the West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines and […]
Mesidor transfer prompts questions about portal
WVU head football coach Neal Brown looked tired. It was noon last Thursday and he admitted he had not slept much since Tuesday because of the news he was delivering […]
DeSantis’ war on Disney is how autocrats usually handle critics
Whatever people think of Florida’s new “Don’t say gay” law, a side debate should chill the spine of anyone who understands the dangers of abuse of government power in service […]
Recovering from an overdose epidemic
Andrew Ayers is busy working on loading and unloading several machines at Guy Chemical — a massive, 30,000-square-foot industrial facility that sits tucked along the border of the tiny unincorporated […]
Call it a stealth coup
What if the coup already came and nobody noticed? It sounds nonsensical, yes. How does a coup go unnoticed? The conventional wisdom, as we learn more about the election of […]
Women belong in sports — and in coaching positions
Of the 16 teams under the West Virginia University athletics umbrella, there were only two female head coaches: Nikki Izzo-Brown, who heads the women’s soccer team, and Christy Bryan-Davis, who […]
Tucker Carlson is the last person qualified to assess Biden’s mental fitness
by Kevin McDermott We’re so accustomed to Tucker Carlson saying crazy stuff that his declaration last week that President Joe Biden should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment […]
A second ‘Contract with America’
During the 1994 congressional campaign, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Dick Armey (R-TX) drew up what they called a Contract with America. It was printed on a card, which was […]
GOP has finally had enough of Madison Cawthorn
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn seems to have finally struck a nerve with his party. Since he first emerged on the political stage just a couple of years ago, the first-term […]
