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Jan. 6 hearings were memorable even without many soundbites

What will we remember from the House hearings investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol? Certainly not partisan squabbling, because with just two Republicans opposed to Trump on the panel, there was none. Congress scholar Molly Reynolds thinks this will be “the only congressional ...

Aug. 21 letters to the editor

Keeping up with the times is important A recent article in the Washington Post described President Biden’s pause to use outside experts to help him work through his approach to multiple crises facing his presidency as a diversion. The topic was the dire condition of democracy at home and ...

Liz Cheney’s principles were showing

by Nicholas Goldberg I’m not a Republican and I don’t get misty-eyed at the memory of the GOP’s glorious achievements. So when I first arrived at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Wednesday, the images of the 40th president — in cowboy garb or ...

These are no ‘ordinary citizens’

They stormed through police barricades, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” They shattered windows and chanted death to the vice president, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” They smeared their own feces on the ...

June 13 letters to the editor

To the First Lady of W.Va. and her staff  I wanted to personally thank First Lady of West Virginia Cathy Justice for the opportunity for my English students in Monongalia County to participate in her essay contest “Renaming the State of West Virginia.” Not only was this topic ...

The consequences of the Trump Loop

Republicans are caught in the Trump Loop. Most do not want to talk about former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, but they also do not want to distance themselves from Trump’s considerable coattails. West Virginia’s three House of ...

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