by Barbara Steinmetz I recently gave a lecture to students at the University of Colorado about my childhood experiences as a refugee survivor from the days of the Holocaust. Aside from relating my story, I had a message to deliver: “Vote. Talk to your friends, parents, neighbors and ...
As of this writing, more than 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country, the majority of them women, children and the elderly. Another 6.5 million have been displaced internally, forced to seek shelter in parts of Ukraine not yet under Russian attack. When Sen. Joe Manchin spoke to ...
by Steven Roberts While you’re giving thanks this week, take a moment to express your gratitude to the generous folks who are helping to receive and resettle Afghan refugees. They represent the very best of the American spirit: good-hearted and open-minded, a spirit that might ...
by DeWayne Wickham On Sept. 24, at the end of a week that began with widely published images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback herding Haitian refugees like cattle and ended with reports of thousands of these desperate people being summarily returned to Haiti, Wade Henderson ...
Thousands of Afghans who worked for and with the United States are trying to get out of the country and find a new home, hopefully in this country. Why can’t West Virginia be one of the destinations? Typically, West Virginia receives only a few refugees each year. According to ...
Editor's Note: Today’s editorial continues from “This is Biden’s Kobayshi Maru,” which ran yesterday, Aug. 19. We could cast blame for the mess in Afghanistan all the way back to President George W. Bush for starting this war. To all the past Congresses that didn’t put a foot ...