by Erwin Chemerinsky and Jeffrey Abramson At the start of this new semester, we face a sobering reality. As law and political science professors, we’re in new territory: instructing our students about the foundations of constitutional law when neither they nor we have faith that the ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice returned to the Capitol on Monday following his bout with COVID-19 and talked a bit about this experience with the virus and renewed his call for residents to get their vaccines and boosters. “It's been a little bit difficult, that's for sure,” he said. ...
The omicron surge couldn’t have come at a worse time. After two years of things like mask-wearing, fights over mask-wearing and constant risk calculation over mask-wearing, people are exhausted and more divided than ever. Add in a healthy dose of mixed messaging and conflicting information, ...
Greeting the new year with skepticism It is the time for looking forward to the coming year: Trepidation and dystopian? Optimism, even utopian? Fear, or longing for the return to better shades of normalcy? Doyle McManus opened with optimism (DP-12-31-21) and Hoppy Kercheval found a bit ...
The omicron variant of COVID-19 these days just might be like that one wayward uncle of yours who always seems to show up — uninvited — at the family barbecue. Said encounter, in other words, might be a little unpleasant and definitely a lot unwelcome. It will still have to be ...
by Nicholas Goldberg Kelly Ernby was no doubt a good person, a friend to her friends, a companion to her husband, a crime-fighting prosecutor. She presumably had all the decent qualities we usually celebrate after a person dies, when we generally say only the kindest things we can ...