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higher education
Aug. 25, 2023
What Is a University Without Liberal Arts? Proposed cuts at West Virginia University may portend a dark future for higher education everywhere.
By Sarah Jones
early and often
July 16, 2022
Democrats’ Problems Go Beyond Joe Manchin The West Virginia senator is more a consequence than the cause of the party’s failures.
By Ross Barkan
early and often
May 11, 2022
Trump-Endorsed Alleged Serial Groper Loses in Nebraska Trump’s support couldn’t overcome Charles Herbster’s sexual-assault scandal in Tuesday’s primaries. But his candidate prevailed in West Virginia.
By Ed Kilgore
joe manchin
Dec. 21, 2021
What Do Progressives Hope to Gain From Bashing Manchin? The idea that Democrats can take Manchin to the woodshed back home in West Virginia betrays a very poor understanding of that state’s Trumpy politics.
By Ed Kilgore
joe manchin
Oct. 21, 2021
Is Manchin Considering Quitting the Democratic Party? The West Virginian wants to issue a credible threat to Democrats to increase his leverage in negotiations over Biden’s agenda.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 24, 2021
Will Joe Manchin Save Voting Rights? Manchin’s state is afoul of many provisions of the For the People Act. A more modest bill might help convince him to support a filibuster exception.
By Ed Kilgore
Over 200 People May Have Been Exposed to Coronavirus at a Planet Fitness Yet another indication that reopening the country is not going so smoothly.
By Hannah Gold
What the Hell Is Vexit? A native of western Virginia tries to explain.
By Sarah Jones
white nationalism
Dec. 30, 2019
Entire West Virginia Correctional Officer Class Fired After Nazi Salute Photo Governor Jim Justice fired almost 30 correctional officer trainees who posed in a Nazi salute for a class photo.
By Matt Stieb
2020 gubernatorial elections
Sept. 3, 2019
Good News for Democrats: Manchin to Stay in Senate Had Manchin run for and won back his old gubernatorial gig, his Senate seat might have soon flipped to Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
Joe Manchin Can’t Be Democrats’ Only Strategy for Holding West Virginia Democrats are right to worry that they won’t retake the Senate in 2020 if Manchin runs for governor. But they can’t write off West Virginia forever.
By Sarah Jones
Conservatives Use Free Speech As a Shield to Defend Bigotry A Republican delegate in West Virginia claimed that the Islamophobic Ilhan Omar poster was about “free speech.” It wasn’t.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
islamophobia
Mar. 1, 2019
Islamophobic Poster of Ilhan Omar Roils West Virginia Capitol An employee resigned and another was reportedly sent to the hospital after an Islamophobic picture was placed in the West Virginia Capitol rotunda.
By Matt Stieb
West Virginia Teachers Strike Again, Appear to Score Another Victory Hours after teachers walked out, a bill that would have raised their pay but allowed charter schools and private school vouchers was tabled.
By Sarah Jones
Here Are the Facts Behind an Abortion Controversy Engulfing Virginia Democrats Virginia Democrats did not actually try to legalize infanticide, but Republicans in the state claim otherwise.
By Sarah Jones
Here Are the Facts Behind an Abortion Controversy Engulfing Virginia Democrats Virginia Democrats did not actually try to legalize infanticide, but Republicans in the state claim otherwise.
By Sarah Jones
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice Won’t Support Charter School Bill Ahead of Jim Justice’s press conference, teachers repeatedly condemned the omnibus bill as “retaliation” for last year’s walkout.
By Sarah Jones
GOP Lawmakers Learned Nothing From Last Year’s Teacher Walkouts West Virginia Republicans are pushing a bill that could spark another walkout, and they aren’t the only state lawmakers mulling retaliatory measures.
By Sarah Jones
state legislatures
Jan. 17, 2019
West Virginia Leads States With Boys’ Club Legislatures Some states, like Massachusetts (bad) and Georgia (relatively good), defy partisan stereotypes on legislative gender balance.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 20, 2018
Richard Ojeda Isn’t Like Other Democrats. Is That a Good Thing? Less than two weeks after losing his bid for Congress in West Virginia, the former Army paratrooper held his first presidential campaign rally.
By Adam K. Raymond
vision 2020
Nov. 11, 2018
West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda Is Running for President He voted for Trump, then turned on him. Now the former Army paratrooper wants to beat him in 2020.
By Adam K. Raymond
2018 midterms
Aug. 29, 2018
Top State Court Denies Don Blankenship Access to the November Ballot for Senator With the third-party spoiler out of the way, Republican Pat Morrisey now just has to figure out how to catch up with incumbent Joe Manchin.
By Ed Kilgore
west virginia
Aug. 14, 2018
The West Virginia GOP Just Impeached the State’s Entire Supreme Court Meanwhile, the party’s attempt to skew a Supreme Court election in North Carolina hit a snag.
By Eric Levitz
West Virginia to Experiment With Mobile Phone Voting by Overseas Troops It’s been tried by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, so what could go wrong?
By Ed Kilgore
Ex-Con Launches Effort to Get on West Virginia Ballot As Third-Party Candidate Don Blankenship will have to thwart West Virginia’s “sore loser” law in court, but he’s angry and rich and wants to smite Mitch McConnell.
By Ed Kilgore
Californians to Vote on Initiative to Divide Their State Into 3 It’s not popular at present, and would have to overcome many obstacles, but the idea of cutting California down to size won’t go away.
By Ed Kilgore
Don Blankenship Continues Quest to Help Joe Manchin Keep His Job After losing the GOP primary, Blankenship plans mount a third-party campaign for Senate in West Virginia — if the courts allow him on the ballot.
By Eric Levitz
Favorites Win Nearly Everywhere on First Big Primary Night of 2018 With the exception of a GOP House member losing in North Carolina, upsets were few and far between in a four-state primary night.
By Ed Kilgore
Blankenship Sunk in West Virginia After Giving National GOP a Scare Both Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump worked to take down the eccentric ex-con who was beginning to look like another Roy Moore.
By Ed Kilgore
What to Watch on 2018’s First Super Tuesday of Primaries Wild who’s-the-Trumpiest GOP Senate races in Indiana and West Virginia and a Democratic gubernatorial fight in Ohio are the big events.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Begs West Virginia Base Not to Nominate a Racist Criminal for Senate Don Blankenship is a racist coal baron; 29 of his workers were killed in a mine accident. Trump’s only argument against him is that he’s unelectable.
By Eric Levitz
The GOP Candidate Testing the Limits of Trumpism How Don Blankenship, the ex-con West Virginia coal baron, has turned a personal rebranding project turned into a Senate run.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
West Virginia Republicans Lie About Each Other’s Imaginary Hillary Ties Hillary Clinton’s value as a devil figure in the GOP is so powerful that two WV Senate candidates are just making up stuff about each other and HRC.
By Ed Kilgore
teachers strikes
Apr. 26, 2018
Teacher Protests Spread to Colorado As Arizona Strike Begins There’s no immediate sign of progress in the deadlock between teachers and Republicans in Arizona, and now Colorado teachers are launching protests.
By Ed Kilgore
The Third Major Red-State Teachers Strike of 2018 Will Start Next Week Arizona educators voted overwhelming to strike after rejecting a pay-raise plan from that state’s governor.
By Ed Kilgore
Oklahoma Teachers Win a Partial Victory Now teachers have forced GOP politicians into raising pay in a second state. But the fight continues in other states, spilling over into elections.
By Ed Kilgore
The Teachers’ Strikes Have Exposed the GOP’s Achilles Heel The red-state rebellion has revealed that the GOP’s “starve the beast” agenda is deeply unpopular with the party’s own voters.
By Eric Levitz
Red-State Teacher Unrest Just Keeps Spreading The wave of protests and strikes isn’t just about pay, but about GOP tax-cut-driven starvation of education spending.
By Ed Kilgore
Ex-Con Blankenship Screwing Up GOP Plans for Taking Down Joe Manchin It was supposed to be a clean partisan purge of a Democrat in an increasingly Republican state. But Blankenship’s personal agenda is interfering.
By Ed Kilgore
The Uprising of Women in Red States Is Just Beginning From the teachers’ strikes in West Virginia to Oklahoma and beyond, working-class women have always known what it takes to fight back.
By Sarah Smarsh
West Virginia’s Striking Teachers Win Narrow Victory The strikers wanted 5 percent raises, funded by taxes on coal companies. Instead, they got one funded by Medicaid cuts.
By Eric Levitz
Will Oklahoma Teachers Be the Next to Strike? After years of frustration over low pay, Oklahoma teachers may emulate their counterparts in West Virginia and go on strike.
By Ed Kilgore
last night on late night
Mar. 5, 2018
Seth Meyers Breaks Down the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike on Late Night “The part of them that is capable of fear was burned away years ago by terrible teachers’ lounge coffee.”
By Halle Kiefer
West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Continues As State Senate Drags Feet on Deal A tentative deal reached by the governor and two unions did not persuade strikers to come back to work, and apparently for good reason.
By Ed Kilgore
West Virginia’s Statewide Teachers’ Strike Continues The strike enters its fourth day tomorrow, as the state’s Republican attorney general hankers to intervene to stop the “illegal” action.
By Ed Kilgore
Fresh Out of Prison, Coal Baron Don Blankenship Is Running for U.S. Senate The former CEO of Massey Energy filed this week to run in the Republican primary.
By Adam K. Raymond
West Virginia’s Marginally Democratic Governor Flips to the GOP In a surprise timed to coincide with a Trump appearance in his state, Jim Justice switched parties, giving the GOP 34 governorships — for the moment.
By Ed Kilgore
Is This Trump-Friendly Democratic Senator Fooling Republicans — or Himself? So far, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin is just flirting. But he might have to pick sides soon.
By Ed Kilgore
everyday racism
Dec. 27, 2016
By Lisa Ryan
West Virginia Officials Lose Jobs After Calling Michelle Obama an ‘Ape in Heels’ The mayor who gleefully responded to the post resigned and the nonprofit director who wrote the comment has also been removed from her post.
By Claire Landsbaum
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