Why the Perfect Red-State Democrat Lost

By Alec MacGillis / November 21, 2018

Taylor Sappington is exactly the kind of candidate his party […]

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Amid the Rise in Mass Shootings, an Ohio Law Arms Some EMTs

By Prince Shakur / November 20, 2018

Supporters of the bill argue that paramedics face the same […]

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Communities With Culture of Volunteerism May Be Healthier, Research Indicates

By Roxy Todd / November 20, 2018

Seven of the leading causes of death are higher in […]

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Farmington No. 9: The West Virginia Disaster that Changed Coal Mining Forever

By Douglas Imbrogno / November 20, 2018

In 1969, the world’s attention turned upward to the Moon, […]

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Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

By Timothy Pratt / November 19, 2018

Writing about Southern Appalachia slightly more than a century ago, […]

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This Ohio Paint Production Experiment Creates Art — and Potentially Jobs — From Polluted Mine Sites

By Sara Schonhardt / November 19, 2018

On a soggy autumn day in late October, a group […]

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In Kentucky, Deregulation And Worker Safety Collide

By Eleanor Klibanoff / November 16, 2018

In 2007, a small bell-making company in East Hampton, Connecticut […]

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The Tree of Life shooting devastated all of Pittsburgh. I can’t help but ask: Why aren’t Black lives mourned this way?

By Tereneh Idia / November 16, 2018

In the aftermath of the Tree of Life tragedy, where […]

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Fact-check: Is West Virginia Poverty 5 Percent Higher than the U.S. as a Whole?

By Jamie Green & Liz Newton / November 15, 2018

Kendra Fershee, a Democrat who is challenged U.S. Rep. David […]

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