Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, February 28, 2020. This article is adapted from Nelson D. Schwartz’s new book, The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business. By Nelson D. Schwartz A $1,000 seat at Yankee Stadium,… Read More ›
Issues
Trump Seeks to Destroy a Wall
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, March 6, 2020. For an earlier post by the same author, see https://voxfairfax.com/2018/09/16/thought-for-the-day-government-schools/. The author’s insight is revealing. By Katherine Stewart Many Americans know by now that when Christian nationalists talk about “religious… Read More ›
Walking the Line at the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court’s political troubles began many years ago with the appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice, a move the so disappointed President Eisenhower that he is purportedly to have said it was a big mistake. Over the decades,… Read More ›
Brief Cases
Brief Cases is published occasionally to update information on previously published articles and/or to add comment upon them. Sometimes the content will be new, particularly as the material is deemed to be of note. ENDING GAY EXORCISMS Editors’ Note: VoxFairfax… Read More ›
Milk Model Muddles Marketplace
Most American shoppers and consumers are deeply familiar with milk to the extent that supermarket and grocery store purchases are familiarly and easily made, likely most often without reading the product label. While some dairy displays offer a variety of… Read More ›
Justices’ Dissents Inform
In several previous posts, VoxFairfax has called reader attention to Supreme Court dissents as opinions containing legal reasoning that may eventually become the majority. One recent dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, however, reflected the sharp divide in judicial ideologies that… Read More ›
Laura Lu Copenhaver: Woven into Virginia History
Editors’ Note: This article, about Laura Copenhaver, an entrepreneur in the textile industry during the Great Depression, is authored by one of her descendants. Copenhaver is one of a group of distinguished Virginia women to have a statue erected in… Read More ›
A Muddled Majority
Editors’ Note: See the following previous VoxFairfax articles on redistricting in Virginia: https://voxfairfax.com/2018/08/19/one-person-one-vote-in-congressional-elections/; https://voxfairfax.com/2019/07/08/virginias-path-to-one-person-one-vote-faces-dangers/; and https://voxfairfax.com/2019/04/22/landmark-redistricting-reform-passed-in-virginia/. On March 6, the Virginia House of Delegates, on a vote of 54-46, agreed to a Senate bill placing a constitutional referendum on the… Read More ›
Charity Scams Finally Scuttled?–Maybe
In the second month of VoxFairfax’s existence in April of 2018, we reported on a joint investigation by the Virginia and New York Attorneys General into the activities of several Falls Church veterans’ organizations involving questionable fundraising activities and possible… Read More ›