Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Tuesday, November 29, 2022
By Paul Krugman of the New York Times Recent events have made clear the need to regulate crypto, an industry that grew from nothing to a $3 trillion market capitalization a year ago, although most of that has now evaporated. But it also seems likely that the industry couldn’t survive […]
Could I have been premature in declaring the breaking of the MAGA fever by the midterm elections earlier this month? In the case of an illness, when a fever is broken it still requires a lot of care and caution to make sure it does not flare back up even […]
By Charles M. Blow of The New York Times As the Bible tells the story, Moses delivers his people from bondage and to the “promised land,” but even with all his efforts, he is not allowed to enter. He must gaze upon it from a distance. This, I fear, is […]
By Maureen Dowd of The New York Times Ding-dong, the Don is dead. Or is he? An election storm brought the house down on the Mar-a-Lago warlock and devastated Republican hopes for a rout. Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for anointing wacky candidates and then using campaign rallies to promote […]
By Lydia Polgreen of The New York Times With the benefit of ample hindsight, it has come to feel inevitable that Twitter would turn into a cesspool of abuse and misinformation and that the powerful — governments, politicians, corporations, celebrities — would find ways to control and manipulate it to […]
Virginians now celebrate three Holidays in November. Election Day (a State Holiday since 2021), Veterans Day, and next week, Thanksgiving. First, a couple of quick takeaways from last week’s election. The modern electorate is nearly impossible to poll accurately, so it’s time we all spent less energy focusing on data […]
With the crucial midterm election outcome last week, the MAGA fever over the land has broken. Despite the last couple of days’ developments – that is, the likelihood that the GOP will still wind up in control of the House if only by a couple seats and the regrettable Trump […]
By Maureen Dowd of the New York Times Are we ready for our new Republican overlords? Are we ready for an empowered Marjorie Taylor Greene? Are we ready for a pumped-up, pistol-packing Lauren Boebert? “How many AR-15s do you think Jesus would have had?” Boebert asked a crowd at a […]
By Paul Krugman of the New York Times If you aren’t feeling a sense of dread about the midterm elections, you haven’t been paying attention. We can talk about the conventional stakes of these elections — their implications for economic policy, major social programs, environmental policy, civil liberties and reproductive […]
Today is Wednesday, Nov.9th, the day after midterm election day, and I cannot ignore the elephant in the room — no partisan reference intended! So, let’s talk about the elephant: There were 6,037,832 Virginians registered to vote as of 9/1/22. That number is almost 60,000 more voters registered than in […]
