Editorial crossposted from The New York Times, May 30, 2019. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on this case this month. A trove of documents brought to the attention of the Supreme Court on Thursday makes it hard to see… Read More ›
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Black Eye for the Good Guys
By Michael Fruitman The headline from the June 6 Washington Post was like a stab to the heart: How a watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA’s disaster response with ‘feel good’ reports. Shocking. With nearly three decades of experience at… Read More ›
THE THREAT: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew McCabe: A Review
Reviewed by Michael Fruitman [Disclosure: The author worked on the campaign of Andrew McCabe’s wife, Dr. Jill McCabe, for Virginia Senate in 2015.] Between the world of chaos and the world of order stands the rule of law. Every person… Read More ›
Wealth Detective Finds Hidden Money of Super Rich
Editors’ Note: This article is excerpted from Bloomberg Businessweek, May 23, 2019 By Ben Steverman Gabriel Zucman started his first real job the Monday after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Fresh from the Paris School of Economics, where he’d studied with a professor… Read More ›
Virginia Should Give a Damn
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” Rhett responded to the pleas of Scarlett O’Hara. The reply would likely be echoed were a news report to carry a story about a strike by executives or CEOs at any major… Read More ›
Protecting the National Electoral Process
In its first issue (March 25, 2018, The Gerrymander Effect in State and National Elections), VoxFairfax characterized the Electoral College results stemming from the 2016 presidential election as a national gerrymander. Subsequent evaluation of the election results (April 6, 2018,… Read More ›
Boutique Virginia Bike Shop Victim of Trump Tariff War
Excerpted from The New York Times, May 29, 2019 By Jeanna Smialek Shane Cusick started his small business, Pello, in 2014 with the goal of making lightweight bikes for children. His experience over the past year is a case study in… Read More ›
Democracy and Patriarchy
Recently, VoxFairfax initiated a new snarky definition: COWGUYS, an acronym for Christian Older White Guys, the ones who discovered, founded, and ruled the United States until women and slaves received the right to vote and immigration was legalized. COWGUYS, as… Read More ›
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
A few weeks ago (May 19, Second Chance Month: Restorative Justice for All Virginians), VoxFairfax took notice of the Commonwealth’s emphasis on some criminal justice reforms exhibiting more enlightened views of our citizen neighbors who come into conflict with the… Read More ›