by Laura Packard I know a thing or two about the intoxication of instant fame. When then-President Donald Trump blocked me on Twitter a few years ago […]
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Gerrymandering W.Va.: Pizza slices or salamanders?
The 2020 Census is complete, the results are due in September, the West Virginia Legislature has already announced appointments to the state’s redistricting committees and we can […]
Will Republicans step up, defend values?
by Star Parker For sure, Democrats rejoiced as they watched Republicans painfully twist in the wind at the beginning of LGBTQ Pride Month, trying to figure out […]
Manchin against the people
A week ago, Sen. Joe Manchin announced in a Charleston Gazette-Mail op-ed he would not support HR 1/S 1, also known as the For the People Act. […]
After democracy dies
So what will you do after democracy dies? Who will we be after democracy dies? After democracy dies, will we remember the country we had? Will we […]
Shh … Congress is working
by Matthew Yglesias The news from Washington last week, as usual, was grim. Senate Republicans blocked legislation to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 […]
RIP Jan. 6 commission
Senate Republicans killed the Jan. 6 commission. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito was one of 35 senators to deliver the death blow to a bipartisan, independent body that […]
GOP song and dance continues
We’re getting tired of this song and dance the GOP keeps doing, where it begrudgingly allows legislation to pass but guts all the funding mechanisms, then wails […]
Current political conservatism a threat
by John M. Crisp Strange things have been happening in the Republican Party. Our understanding of them might be served by a brief review of the traditional […]
Is the era of small govt. now coming to an end?
by Stuart Rothenberg Regardless of whether you agree with his agenda or not, it is now clear that President Joe Biden does not merely want to tinker […]
