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Thao Nguyen

Arts, Culture & Media

At just 24, she put out one of 2008’s best indie rock records, We Brave Bee Stings and All and she’s touring the country now with her band. She grew up in Arlington, Virginia, where her mother owns a coin laundromat and dry cleaning business. We sent Jesse Dukes to meet up with Thao and […]

John Smith and part of his famous 1616 map of New England

Here’s the story of Captain John Smith you didn’t get from the Disney flick

Books

Eric Cantor’s historic defeat in Virginia hardly fazes an immigration activist

Global Politics

Pentagon outlines budget cuts to the tune of a half-trillion dollars

Global Politics

Police officer, shot, killed on Va. Tech campus, gunmen no longer at large

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The promise and shame of America in Jefferson’s Monticello

Global Politics

Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello, is where the beauty, the promise and the shameful underside of American history come together.

The Obama effect and the race in Virginia

Global Politics

So far this year over 150,000 new voters have registered in Virginia — how the Obama effect will impact the political contest in that state.

54 Years Later: A High School Diploma

This month and next, young people all over the country will be trading in their high school textbooks for caps and gowns. But in the case of Olivia Ferguson McQueen, the trade won’t be happening over night; it will be happening after a gap of more than fifty years. McQueen should have graduated in 1959. […]

Never Underestimate Your Enemy: General Washington at Princeton

Never underestimate your enemy. On January 3rd 1777, General George Washington made a surprise attack on Princeton, New Jersey […]

Senate Races to Watch: Massachusetts and Virginia

As election day quickly approaches, the nation’s attention has been glued to Governor Romney, President Obama, and most recently Hurricane Sandy.  But this November, contentious races in the Senate will also produce lasting effects on the power balance in Washington. Virginia and Massachusetts are two states with Senate races to watch in this election.  The race for […]

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