Sometimes I Count Them

Sometimes, when I walk into a room — a conference room, a board room, an auditorium, a lecture hall — I count the Black and brown faces, all the ones I can find. I didn’t set out to…

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Of Cats and Coronavirus

The coronavirus outbreak has become a pandemic overnight with entire countries more or less shutting down — creating curfews, closing borders, suspending some services. Major sports…

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An American Reckoning in Virginia

America has long attempted to serve as the world’s moral and ethical compass, but a reckoning is long overdue. As residents of the preeminent global power, Americans are accustomed to…

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The Modern Day Dark Age

In his novel “Lost for Words,” the British satirist Edward St. Aubyn wrote, “We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screensavers, and…

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