Articles
Carpetbaggers and Hicks: West Virginia's Heated Senate Race
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin is making his way up Rudolph Street in the annual Elkins Forest Festival Parade, one of the oldest and largest parades in the...
Robert Byrd.
For more than a third of its 147-year existence, the state of West Virginia was represented in the U.S. Senate by one man: Robert C. Byrd. So encompassing was...
Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving Senator, Dies
For more than a third of its 144-year existence, the state of West Virginia was represented in the U.S. Senate by one man: Robert C. Byrd. So encompassing was...
Alan Frumin: Health Reform's Reconciliation Ref
As Democrats try to salvage health care reform, there is one man who above all others will help determine its fate, and he is not Barack Obama or Harry Reid or...
Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason
Not long ago before our nation launched the invasion Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: "This...
Photo Essays
Remembering Robert Byrd
The longest-serving senator in U.S. history dies at 92
