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Commentary: There's a better way to choose winners in crowded primaries

Ranked choice voting (RCV) provides a better system to choose nominees. Rather than limit voters to expressing a single preference for a specific candidate, RCV allows voters to rank multiple candidates in a pool.

Commentary: Alzheimer's steals minds and lives, but we can outshine the darkness

The Longest Day is the day with the most light—the summer solstice, June 20. Inspired by this day, participants around the world fight to outshine the darkness of Alzheimer's through an activity of choice.

Los Angeles Times: Supreme Court keeps medication abortion safe — for now

The Supreme Court did the right thing last week by unanimously ruling against a challenge to the safety of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in medication abortions.

Tyler Cowen: The real government conspiracy isn’t about UFOs

Three months ago, following last summer’s congressional hearings on UFOs, the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued a 63-page report evaluating almost 80 years of evidence. Its conclusion can be summarized as follows: Not much to see here. Please move on.

Ukraine's grain exports reach pre-war levels but challenges remain

A boost & a warning for Ukraine. It says its grain exports are back at pre-war levels, but farmers say the conflict still hampers production

Commentary: With a nudge from above, Virginia takes a step toward racial reconciliation

All of these bipartisan fingerprints were among the many to join God’s this spring as Virginia’s journey of racial reconciliation and healing rounded another bend in the road.

Commentary: Actually, no. There is just the one Richmond

Our time spent in pro-Palestinian spaces and with our Palestinian allies has fed us with hope and affirmed a thousand times over that peace and coexistence are possible when all people are free.

Williams: 'Our history in our own hands.' Tracing ancestry through tragedy and triumph

    The politics surrounding history have dictated not merely how events unfold, but how they're captured, cataloged and commemorated—and who gets to say what's brought to the forefront and what remains hidden, saysBethany Bell.

    Nolan Finley: Treat all gun violators the same as Hunter Biden

      If Hunter Biden's name had been Jim Bob Jones, would he have been tried and convicted for lying on a federal firearms purchase form?

      Letter: Does Trump conviction have no meaning?

        Say what you will about the internet and our vast online presence these days, it sure comes in handy when you’re trying to think of a Doonesbury cartoon from 1974. I was on a flight home from two years in Nairobi, Kenya, and at some airport, when I heard that President Nixon was involved in …

        Letter: Don't 'fear' artificial intelligence

          Teaching is a long road, a journey. We’ve walked it before, when computers and videos first stepped into our classrooms.

          Letter: Let 'hatred' go when voting

            It just amazes me with the massive problems we are facing in our country today how so many continue supporting those who are responsible for creating the situation.

            Letter: Trump's deportation plan demands more detail

              Trump's deportation plan demands more detail

              Harvard thought experiment suggests aliens may be among us

                Harvard and Montana Technological University researchers propose aliens might be among us despite no evidence in recent government reports

                Editorials

                Editorial: Chasing shiny objects, VCU and city leaders lose their way

                A mayor whose administration carves out $170 million for a nonessential ballpark, but struggles to fund schools and dips into the pockets of the city’s most important retail sector — restaurants.

                Editorial: 34 felony counts and one big loser: us

                The sad truth: Both political parties will likely benefit. Democrats are already hoisting the ignominious “convicted felon” in campaign ads against Trump and his legion of supporters. Trump and his GOP allies expect a boost in fundraising, meanwhile, as they position the verdict to bolster the former president’s victimhood status.

                Editorial: Celebrate the win, but don’t confuse AAA with real progress

                Despite Stoney’s proselytizing, the upgrade from Fitch has nothing to do with the merits of the Diamond District project. The bond rating agencies rate a municipality’s ability to pay, not how the money is actually spent.

                Editorial: Segregationist history? In RVA, the past is our present

                “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner

                Columnists

                Commentary: There's a better way to choose winners in crowded primaries

                Ranked choice voting (RCV) provides a better system to choose nominees. Rather than limit voters to expressing a single preference for a specific candidate, RCV allows voters to rank multiple candidates in a pool.

                Commentary: Alzheimer's steals minds and lives, but we can outshine the darkness

                The Longest Day is the day with the most light—the summer solstice, June 20. Inspired by this day, participants around the world fight to outshine the darkness of Alzheimer's through an activity of choice.

                Los Angeles Times: Supreme Court keeps medication abortion safe — for now

                The Supreme Court did the right thing last week by unanimously ruling against a challenge to the safety of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in medication abortions.

                Tyler Cowen: The real government conspiracy isn’t about UFOs

                Three months ago, following last summer’s congressional hearings on UFOs, the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued a 63-page report evaluating almost 80 years of evidence. Its conclusion can be summarized as follows: Not much to see here. Please move on.

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                Letters to the Editor

                Letter: Does Trump conviction have no meaning?

                Say what you will about the internet and our vast online presence these days, it sure comes in handy when you’re trying to think of a Doonesbury cartoon from 1974. I was on a flight home from two years in Nairobi, Kenya, and at some airport, when I heard that President Nixon was involved in …

                Letter: Don't 'fear' artificial intelligence

                Teaching is a long road, a journey. We’ve walked it before, when computers and videos first stepped into our classrooms.

                Letter: Let 'hatred' go when voting

                It just amazes me with the massive problems we are facing in our country today how so many continue supporting those who are responsible for creating the situation.

                Letter: Trump's deportation plan demands more detail

                Trump's deportation plan demands more detail

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