
Alon Ben-Meir: Our democracy faces the gravest danger
On Jan. 6, Donald Trump was planning to hold a press conference during which he was expected to repeat lies for the hundredth time that the election in 2020 was stolen.

On Jan. 6, Donald Trump was planning to hold a press conference during which he was expected to repeat lies for the hundredth time that the election in 2020 was stolen.

One of the signal stories of 2021 was a narrative of unfulfilled promise: the promise by a new president to open a path to citizenship to 10.2 million immigrants – and the thwarting of that promise by the politics of a particular historical moment.

Medicare Advantage is an amazing program that has that most rare of qualities these days, bipartisan support in Congress.

Months of Democrats and President Biden kissing Joe Manchin’s West Virginia white ass ended, predictably, with Joe Manchin doing what Joe Manchin was no doubt going to do all along.

The pandemic is the most challenging crisis facing our nation in more than a century, and remains one of the fundamental human rights issues of our time.

Every single measure funded in the Build Back Better Act would create far more jobs than Pentagon spending does.

Gov. Ralph Northam is proposing a slew of tax cuts in next year’s state budget, trying to get ahead of Gov.-elect Youngkin by targeting the tax cuts at working folks, probably correctly assuming that Republicans will want the windfall to go to the already wealthy.

What if, instead of being born into the Roman police state, Jesus had been born at this moment in time? What kind of reception would Jesus and his family be given?

Trump and his Republican white nationalist base know they are not believed nor trusted by people of color, women, nor anyone trained and educated to engage in critical thinking.

Our region of Virginia has known firsthand the devastation of the opioid crisis. In recent years, a new threat has driven up fatal drug overdoses: fentanyl and its analogues.