<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: What Comes Next for Virginia’s Governor?
The Democrat Ralph Northam digs in his heels despite scandal. Plus from TheFacebook.com to Facebook in 15 years, Democrats get excited about taxes, shrinking Chinatowns, and more
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A picture—of a man in a Ku Klux Klan outfit and another in blackface—from the Virginia governor’s medical-school yearbook page has thrown his tenure into tumult. Northam quickly apologized for the image, but claimed in a later press conference that he was neither of the people depicted. The revelation is a betrayal of the black voters who propelled Northam to office in 2017, under promises of ushering in a new era in Virginia’s history that would , Vann R. Newkirk II writes. But more than
