by Chris Reed In 1983, Harvard-educated psychiatrist turned Carter administration bureaucrat turned conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer wrote a remarkably prescient column for Time magazine about “the mirror-image […]
Opinion
Tired of marching for what should already be ours
He said many profound things that day. He said America had given African Americans “a bad check.” He said he had come to remind the nation of […]
The lost chapter: 100 years since Blair Mountain
Aug. 25, 1921, was the beginning of the end of West Virginia’s lost chapter. While the memory of company stores and scrip live on, the nearly decade-long […]
Gov’t must do more to stop robocalls
by James Rosen Congress created the Do Not Call Registry in 2003 by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, and still robocalls kept coming. The Federal Trade Commission outlawed […]
Ripple effects of Afghanistan
What has happened in Afghanistan will not stay in Afghanistan but will have a ripple effect throughout the region and beyond. In remarks Friday at the White […]
GOP silent on tweet supporting would-be bomber
On Thursday, a North Carolina man drove a truck onto a sidewalk outside the Library of Congress, demanding to meet with President Joe Biden, ranting about a […]
Stop worrying CRT will corrupt kids
by Virginia Heffernan In 1925, John W. Butler, a legislator in Tennessee, told reporters that years earlier he’d “read in the papers that boys and girls were […]
President Biden should just admit: ‘We blew it’
by John M. Crisp Joe Biden was probably always going to be a one-term president. His age was a political liability when he defeated Donald Trump in […]
We need quicker tests in order to contain the Delta variant
by Max Nisen With the Delta variant surging throughout the U.S., Biden administration chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci has advocated for more testing — including for the […]
Guest essay: Teaching about Sept. 11 in America
by Joseph M. Mazgaj In 2011, my students asked me about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The class had a lot of questions about al-Qaeda and […]