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Morrisey’s trip to the border wasn’t about fentanyl

The flood of fentanyl — an extremely potent synthetic opioid — into the U.S. and, by extension, into West Virginia is alarming and something we should all be concerned about. As little as 2 mg can be fatal, and illicit drug manufacturers have been adding fentanyl to more traditional ...

A challenge for the new year

by Kathryn Jean Lopez “Be my Mommy!” the banner in the CVS window read, part of a display of surplus Baby Emma dolls.  It was the fifth day of Christmas, and I noticed during Mass — shortly before I went to the drugstore to pick up prescriptions — that one of the ...

Donors aren’t separate from their deeds

by Benjamin Soskis It was a supreme moment of addition by subtraction. On Dec. 9, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced an agreement with representatives of the Sackler family to remove the Sackler name from “seven named exhibition spaces in the Museum, including the wing that ...