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Middle America Is Dying Hard Feb. 27, 2024
WEIRTON, West Virginia — Most people in this town will tell you they'd rather have taken a phy... Read More
West Virginia Lawmakers Are Pushing Public Schools To Teach Creationism May. 15, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
All you need to know about the current condition of West Virginia's public education system is summe... Read More
Finding Reasons for Progressive Optimism Aug. 17, 2022
From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, tr... Read More
Power to the People -- Even if It Comes From Coal Jul. 06, 2022
Despite its name, the Democratic Party has no time for democracy. Public opinion and democracy be da... Read More
Haggling Over Trillions While Important Goals Get Shoved Aside Nov. 01, 2021
Democratic negotiators appear close to a deal that effectively would halve the original $3.5 trillio... Read More
The Democrats' Reconciliation Bill Is Unprecedented in Every Way Oct. 01, 2021
There was a time not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of j... Read More
What Joe Manchin Knows That Progressives Don't Jun. 17, 2021
The 2010 Senate candidate was almost a caricature of the sort of Republican who drives Democrats cra... Read More
Joe Manchin: Racist or Profile in Courage Jun. 11, 2021
In 1859, Abraham Lincoln related the tale of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men with discov... Read More
Manchin, Byrd and the Arc of Justice Jun. 09, 2021
WASHINGTON — Much depends upon Sen. Joe Manchin III, the man stuck in the middle of a deeply d... Read More
May 7, 2021 May. 07, 2021
Dear Annie: I am a 15-year-old boy and an only child. I get good grades and my social life is somewh... Read More
Joe Manchin: Washington's Most Wanted Man Apr. 14, 2021
WASHINGTON — Everybody wants to know where Sen. Joe Manchin's hideaway is in the Capitol. The ... Read More
Real America Sits at One End of the Potomac -- and at the Other May. 21, 2019
GORMANIA, W.Va. — Life here along the North Branch of the Potomac River is very different than... Read More
Ohio the Comeback State May. 14, 2019
I recently took some flak from Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for saying in a speech at the Heartland Insti... Read More
Scared Out of Our Minds Apr. 11, 2019
We can't know what was going through her mind, but Santana Adams of Milton, West Virginia, has been ... Read More
Which Politicians Look Like Their Home State? May. 12, 2018
West Virginia — which, between 2015 and 2016, was the only state to see both more deaths than ... Read More
A New Lesson Plan in West Virginia Mar. 07, 2018
What a glorious thing, watching West Virginia teachers, most of them women, shut down the state's pu... Read More
Jumping the Shark: The News Media Way Sep. 05, 2017
It was the fifth season of the sitcom "Happy Days" and producers figured they needed something to bo... Read More
Americans Are No Longer on the Move Dec. 30, 2016
Americans see themselves as people on the move. When the going gets tough or when opportunity beckon... Read More
No, I'm Not Inbred Sep. 25, 2016
Dear Annie: The first meeting of my girlfriend and a couple with whom I am friends caused me to want... Read More
Sick of Yelling May. 07, 2016
Dear Annie: I am a 15-year-old boy and an only child. I get good grades and my social life is somewh... Read More
