Marshall University's Student Newspaper

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Marshall University's Student Newspaper

The Parthenon
Marshall University's Student Newspaper

The Parthenon
EDITORIAL: Supreme Court hypocrisy

EDITORIAL: Supreme Court hypocrisy

October 27, 2020

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito voted Monday to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s controversial nomination to the Supreme Court. Barrett’s nomination was...

Dilon Moore disinfects shopping carts and controls the number of customers allowed to shop at one time at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, May 7, 2020. Store workers across the country are suddenly being asked to enforce the rules that govern shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.

EDITORIAL: Stay at home

October 20, 2020

As various sporting and on-campus events resume across the state, many students return to in-person classes and the state government consistently presents...

EDITORIAL: The criminalization of truth-telling

October 13, 2020

For years, Australian journalist Julian Assange has been locked up, tortured and spied upon while battling legally with the U.S. government, which under...

Democratic candidate Paula Jean Swearengin and Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.

EDITORIAL: Democracy requires debate

October 6, 2020

Paula Jean Swearengin, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in West Virginia, and incumbent Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito were trending for several...

President Donald Trump speaks about coronavirus testing strategy, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020.

EDITORIAL: Tax the rich

September 29, 2020

We hate that this has to be said, but minimum wage workers should not be forced to pay more in taxes than millionaires and billionaires—not in the wealthiest...

EDITORIAL: Black Lives Matter

EDITORIAL: Black Lives Matter

September 22, 2020

Seventeen Republican state senators from West Virginia recently made headlines for penning a letter to Marshall University and West Virginia University...

EDITORIAL: High-speed broadband should be a public utility

September 15, 2020

The onset and continuation of the coronavirus pandemic have relentlessly exposed now-unmistakable flaws in the social fabric and critical infrastructure...

EDITORIAL: We deserve better than this

EDITORIAL: We deserve better than this

September 8, 2020

They say the stench of dying empires wreaks of desolation, death and despair. In the face of a torn and tattered social fabric which has been ripped...

Eugene V. Debs, member of the Socialist Party of the USA and presidential candidate, speaks to members of the worker’s union on Aug. 17, 1912, at an unknown location in the USA.

EDITORIAL: The essence of united labor

September 1, 2020

As Labor Day approaches, let us remember not only to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the American working class (and of those around the world),...

Editorial: This is NOT normal

August 25, 2020

We are living in dangerously weird times. And things just keep getting weirder... Everywhere you look, institutions are burning, safety-nets...

A worker hands out disinfectant wipes and pens as voters line up outside Riverside High School for Wisconsin’s primary election Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Milwaukee.

EDITORIAL: Vote, but not at the ballot box

April 21, 2020

Secretary of State Mac Warner recently said via a Facebook livestream with gubernatorial candidate Stephen Smith that voting this year in West Virginia...

President Trump speaks to the nation from the Oval Office at the White House about the coronavirus Wednesday, March, 11, 2020.

EDITORIAL: Unprecedented, trying times

March 17, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic makes its presence known around the world, effective and responsible leadership in government is more necessary now than ever. Unfortunately,...

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