Apropos Paul’s recent post, nothing separates good from bad punditry like off-year and midterm elections. The Democrats had a bad night last Tuesday because the party that holds the White House
Of course, every pundit, no matter their political position, finds yesterday’s elections reinforces their preconceived view of the Democratic Party. No reality will ever change that. But of cour
Well, at least something good happened today. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam s
Our society tortures people all the time. They are the millions thrown behind bars and forgotten about. As we know, prisons are hot beds of COVID. Prisoners in Richmond started asking questions. So wh
On July 9. 1640, a Virginia court ruled that a Black indentured servant who ran away was in fact a slave. This is a moment by which we can talk about the codification of chattel slavery as the key lab
Ralph Northam’s past may be, uh, racially problematic, but he’s certainly making up for it now. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of an ico
I mean, I don’t want to get my hopes up that something good happens, but hey…. Teachers in Virginia may soon gain the right to collectively bargain with the public school systems that empl
I really enjoyed this New York Times op-ed about a fight by a historically black community to stop a dirty energy facility from being in their community and how it compared to when the same company pr