At Davis & Elkins College, student success is not just a goal—it is the heart of everything we do. Often, the secret ingredient to that success is not found in a textbook or even a classroom, but in the unexpected magic of community. Whether it is leading a student club, singing harmonies ...

The 2025 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature is finally done, wrapping up midnight Saturday after 60 days of floor sessions, committee meetings and debates. I get asked a lot during a session about whether I think a session was good or productive. This year I was asked for letter ...

“You come late, but yet you come.” This quote by the philosopher Schopenhauer could be aptly applied to Stephen Bannon’s attempt to cozy up to Elon Musk. Previously, Bannon called him a “broligarch” and an “illegal alien” and hinted that he may be a fraud. However, having ...

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries’ trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised ...

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump abruptly announced a 90-day pause on most of his planned country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs — with the notable exception of the People’s Republic of China. In so strikingly singling out China as the focus of America’s economic and geopolitical ...

Donald Trump’s tariff policy startled world stock markets and threw financial institutions into turmoil. It represented a considerable gamble, but it should not have been unexpected. Trump has been, since 1987, an opponent of globalization, seeing it as a threat to both producers and workers. ...