American Dirt, American Water: Cultivating empathy for migrants amidst Trump’s culture of fear
American Dirt sat unread on my shelf for the better part of two years, and every couple of months, I’d pick it up and turn it over in my hands.
American Dirt sat unread on my shelf for the better part of two years, and every couple of months, I’d pick it up and turn it over in my hands.

On the theme of “Journeys,” the 2025 Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival is a concentrated week of glorious music and community in Harrisonburg.
Virginia’s MAGA attorney general, Jason Miyares, scored a victory in court to get an alleged Hamas funder to hand over its financial records.
Ben Cline hasn’t had anything to say publicly about the $400 million luxury plane gift given by the royal family of Qatar, a primary funding partner of the terrorist group Hamas, to Donald Trump.
Here’s a first-hand account of a recent meeting between Congressman Ben Cline and two of his constituents at his Roanoke office.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, has been removed from the United States Memorial Holocaust Council.
Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution.
An effort to silence those who don’t agree with the Trump administration is being challenged in court on behalf of a Georgetown professor.
I’m about to take back everything nice I’ve said recently about Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and then vow to never say anything nice about them ever again.
As Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny, Americans continue to process the possible ramifications of Signalgate.
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