Biden administration delivers big for coastal communities, by Ben Jealous
It may be the dead of winter, but when we think of our beaches, none of us want to picture them covered in oil.
MAGA takes on Elon Musk’s ‘tech bros’, by Clarence Page
Just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump was scheduled to return to the White House, the coterie of American tech oligarchs who played a decisive role in re-electing him was busy exerting their own power in ways that suggest the MAGA …
Jimmy Carter remembered as a man of faith, humility, by Julianne Malveaux
Tens of thousands of words will be published in tribute to Jimmy Carter, our beloved 37th president. A renaissance man, diplomat, philanthropist, civil rights icon and so much more, he is most aptly described, in my opinion, as a man …
The governor fiddles while Virginia smokes, by Phillip E. Thompson
The tale of Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned has become a metaphor for leaders ignoring pressing crises. In Virginia, this imagery feels all too real as Gov. Glenn Youngkin appears content to let the state’s illegal marijuana market thrive …
Countdown on for TikTok, by Cullen Seltzer
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up TikTok’s plea for a stay of its own partial execution. The first round of briefs were due just before Christmas. The second and final round was due Jan. 3.
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I sit here and wonder, How in the world this could be, my-oh-my I never thought, oh, I never thought you’d ever leave me But now that you left me Good Lord, good Lord, how I cried out You don’t …
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Will next HUD secretary fight for the unhoused?, by David W. Marshall
In 2000, Republican George W. Bush ran for president as a “compassionate conservative.”
Behind the “Lie of the Year,” some bitter truths, by Clarence Page
As it has been doing yearly since 2009, the fact-checking organization PolitiFact has chosen the Lie of the Year.
‘I upended my life to care for Mama, it was one of the best decisions I ever made’, by Hazel Trice Edney
It was an autumn morning in 2018 when my phone rang in Washington, D.C., and I’ll never forget the sound of Mama’s voice on the line.
The transformation of Richmond’s Confederate monuments into historical lessons, by David Cunningham
In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia.
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The case for a presidential pardon for Marilyn Mosby by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
The political weaponization of the justice system has become a dangerous norm.
Musk takes on Washington, but can he take over? by Clarence Page
Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I find myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country?
For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back by Ana Lucia Araujo
During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays.
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