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Justice’s business, debts could cause conflict of interest

As we’ve watched the Justice family’s creditors come knocking and their business assets sold off to cover debts, we’ve become increasingly concerned about how this financial drama could impact Jim Justice’s ability to serve as a U.S. senator. And, given West Virginia’s reliably red ...

We have to destroy the GOP to save it

by Jackie Calmes Last week in Milwaukee, the Republican Party officially nominated for president a man of damnable firsts — first president to be impeached twice, first to deny his defeat, first to resist the peaceful transfer of power and first to be criminally convicted. Then the ...

Vance seals arrival of big-government conservatism

At the Republican National Convention last week, Republicans celebrated both a new policy platform and the choice of Sen. JD Vance as the former president’s running mate. The choices go together all too well. Republicans are shifting toward a new kind of inward-looking big-government ...

Democrats and Republicans don’t actually hate each other

by Melinda Burrell Rep. Kevin Crutchfield, Republican from North Carolina’s 83rd district, strode to the back of the state legislature building. Four House pages were seated there, high school students who help out at the state legislature. “What’s one thing you’ve learned ...