Virginia Heffernan
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Virginia Heffernan is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times’ Opinion section. After receiving her doctorate in English and American Studies from Harvard, Heffernan began her journalism career as a fact-checker at the New Yorker. She’s worked as a senior editor at Harper’s, a TV critic for Slate and a columnist for the New York Times Magazine, among other gigs. She is the author of “Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art,” and she hosts the Trumpcast podcast for Slate.
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Thirty years of rainfall data splits the nation into the desiccated West and the inundated East.
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Unless Americans understand in their bones the facts of the Capitol attack, history may be reconfigured.
It misses the point to say Eric Clapton’s dangerous rhetoric on vaccines can be separated from his music.
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