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Betty Joyce Nash reported for the Hendersonville Times-News and the Greensboro News & Record before moving to Virginia. She writes journalism and fiction from Charlottesville. In 2017, the University of New Mexico Press published Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, a book of short stories she co-edited with a colleague. The stories probe Americans’ complicated relationship to firearms. For more information, see www.bettyjoycenash.com
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Nov 17, 2025 ∙ 4 min
Don’t Use the Military as an Extension of Law Enforcement
Presidents have called in National Guard troops for domestic missions at least ten times since World War II, starting in 1794, when Western Pennsylvanians’ protests on federal liquor taxes prompted Secretary of War Henry Knox to ask governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for troops. The Trump administration’s dispatch of troops to the Democratic cities of Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis have, for now, been stopped by lawsuits over sending Guard soldiers...
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Jul 14, 2025 ∙ 3 min
The Federal Reserve Must Decide Monetary Policy Without Political Pressure
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was recently criticized by President Trump, who described him as “ very dumb, hardheaded .” In...
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Apr 14, 2025 ∙ 3 min
Never take voting rights for granted
Pres. Lyndon Johnson signed the 24th Amendment abolishing poll taxes in 1964, saying, “There can now be no one too poor to vote. There is...
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