Since its inception some 15 months ago, VoxFairfax has positioned itself as a marketplace of ideas, eschewing political horse races and candidate endorsements in favor of presenting broader themes raised by such events, including cultural impact and voting. Sometimes, however,… Read More ›
Johnny Cash’s soulful ballad Don’t Take Your Guns to Town is not about gun violence but is a metaphor of innocents who ignore advice about unknown dangers. In an apparent bout of high dudgeon, Carroll County, Virginia’s Board of Supervisors… Read More ›
Editors’ Note: Crossposted from The Loudoun Times-Mirror, June 21, 2019. The unveiling of the memorial on June 19th was significant, as Juneteenth, as it is called, commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the state of Texas, emancipating the… Read More ›
By Jeneen Interlandi. Crossposted and excerpted from The New York Times, June 2, 2019 Dr. Peter Hotez has devoted his career to making vaccines more widely available. He routinely gets attacked for it. Dr. Peter Hotez at the Baylor College of… Read More ›
On June 17, 2019, SCOTUS rejected a GOP-led appeal on a gerrymandering case that shuttled back and forth in the Commonwealth for a few years. In Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill, the court found that the appellants lacked standing… Read More ›
Political polling and news interviews often reveal that voters for the President in 2016 believed he would “shake things up” and cause government to be more responsive to the needs of the citizenry. The nation’s troublesome immigration policies were and… Read More ›
Despite the language of the Declaration of Independence asserting that “in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,” the United States continues to recognize some… Read More ›
Overturning the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision would not be “pro-life.” It would be destructive of life. By Rob Schenck. Crossposted from The New York Times, May 30, 2019 For more than 30 years I worked to overturn Roe v. Wade. As an… Read More ›