
History lesson on a T-shirt: But you don’t know your Confederate flag
You can’t have a good time at a county fair without somebody who doesn’t know history trying to give you a history lesson with their favorite Confederate flag T-shirt.

You can’t have a good time at a county fair without somebody who doesn’t know history trying to give you a history lesson with their favorite Confederate flag T-shirt.

Ariel Ahram, associate professor in the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs, testified Wednesday, July 29, that sexual violence in the midst of civil wars in Syria and Iraq has reached catastrophic levels.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia filed a lawsuit today against the City of Petersburg for violating the First Amendment rights of a resident who was prohibited from speaking at a city council meeting solely because he owed an unpaid fine to the City.

A federal court in Virginia today heard arguments in the case of a transgender male student at Gloucester High School who seeks to use communal restrooms that match his gender identity.

Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia campaigned on green energy (and I hear some people may have believed him, though I haven’t met one) and then immediately backed the proposed construction of a giant fracked-gas pipeline through the mountains and farms of Virginia to carry fossil fuels from West Virginia to North Carolina.

Attorney General Mark Herring is commemorating the third annual Military Consumer Protection Day by bringing focus to the unique consumer challenges of servicemembers, veterans and their families while deployed and when they return home.

The Atticus Finch who stood on the right side of justice and history in To Kill a Mockingbird is also the Atticus Finch in Go Set a Watchman who reveals himself as a segregationist, reactionary extremist, a eugenicist. You almost want to wish that the lost manuscript from Harper Lee had never been found. I say almost, because I think it’s better for the telling of To Kill a Mockingbird that it was found, in several ways.

The American experiment is unique because we were founded on the principles of liberty, opportunity, prosperity, and responsibility. Before America, no government in the history of the world had successfully committed to a limited, accountable government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Aspiring peacebuilder Sujan Rai arrived at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute a week late; she almost didn’t make it to Eastern Mennonite University at all. The delay: two massive earthquakes that hit her city of Kathmandu, Nepal in April.

The Department of Justice today filed a statement of interest in federal court explaining that transgender students must be allowed to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity under Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972.
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