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 […]
Opinion
Lying lips: If politicians say it, it must not be true
How do you know when a politician is lying? Answer: when his lips are moving. It’s an old joke, but it fits the Biden administration. The president […]
We can learn from Colleyville synagogue attack
Emotions have been everywhere over what happened in Colleyville Saturday night — relief, gratitude, anger, fear, frustration, exhaustion. The attack on Congregation Beth Israel ended without the […]
Fake 2020 Electoral College certificates
by Will Bunch On Dec. 14, 2020, 20 prominent Pennsylvania Democrats gathered in Harrisburg — in a ceremony shorn of some of its pomp and circumstance because […]
Pets or kids? How about neither?
by John M. Crisp Pope Francis seems like a decent man whose humility and enlightened thinking sometimes put him at odds with more traditional segments of the […]
Dr. King’s false heirs
by Richard Holt Imagine two kids on a playground. These children play. They laugh. They are helping each other on the slides and sharing a sandwich for […]
The content of one’s character
by Barbara R. Arnwine and Daryl D. Jones This weekend we pause to honor the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to interpret […]
Mixed messaging, reluctant leaders not helping COVID surge
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 […]
Sec. Warner spreading conspiracies
It’s shameful that West Virginia’s top election official is repeating debunked conspiracy theories and circulating misinformation. We will address the misinformation in Secretary of State Mac Warner’s […]
Guest essay: Restoring confidence in gov’t begins by restoring elections
by Mac Warner Restoring confidence in our government begins with confidence in our elections. Election confidence has two main components: transparency and process. Much of the recent […]
