On October 25, 2019, the Richmond Times-Dispatch—in an act of environmental and economic courage—reported by way of a guest author the curmudgeonly misdeeds of a Canadian enterprise allegedly over harvesting menhaden[1] from the Chesapeake Bay. The primary question of the… Read More ›
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CNN’s Toobin Regrets Clinton Email Coverage
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from Politico, October 21, 2019. Toobin’s admission is a cautionary tale to all news consumers to maintain a critical mindset as talking heads regale with their expertise. Readers must be careful to filter media communications through the… Read More ›
Economic Incentives Often Fall Short
Editors’ Note: Adapted from The New York Times, October 26, 2019. By Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee [The authors were just awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.] At least since Adam Smith and his famous B’s (“It is not from the benevolence of… Read More ›
New Voters Turned Virginia Blue
Editors’ Note: An insightful analysis reposted from The New York Times, November 9, 2019. By Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff SOUTH RIDING, Va. — Not long ago, this rolling green stretch of Northern Virginia was farmland. Most people who could vote had grown up here. And… Read More ›
No Resistance. No Cabal. Public Servants. They are Us.
From a New York Times editorial, October 21, 2019. Editors’ Note: VoxFairfax has published several articles satirizing the administration’s concern with a “deep state” as cited by Steve Bannon to justify an attack upon individuals–always unnamed but dangerous–to White House policies… Read More ›
Quid Pro Quorum: FEC’s Coma
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The Center for Public Integrity, September 11, 2019. Deconstruction of the federal government has been not a covert policy of the current administration. No more pertinent independent agency has been kneecapped and prevented from exercising the… Read More ›
VA 2019 Elections and Tea Leaves
By Frank Blechman Because I work in political campaigns and have been doing so since 1960, I am often asked, after an election, “What do these results mean?” I am then supposed to make some prediction for the future based… Read More ›
Kagan on Gerrymandering
Editors’ Note: History has a way of teaching us that the wisdom of SCOTUS dissents evolve to become the rule of law. Excerpted from HuffPost, October 28, 2019. By Sam Levine In a 5-4 decision this past June, the U.S…. Read More ›
Exxon Faces Climate Fraud Claim in New York
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from BuzzFeed News, October 22, 2019. By Zahra Hirji and Dan Vergano The New York State attorney general is taking ExxonMobil to trial in a historic case, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors about the company’s… Read More ›