Reading archive 2022-02-11

In Amazon’s shadow, neighbors are dueling over housing density - “This is not a farmer’s field in the middle of nowhere,” said Gattoni-Celli, a former Arlington resident who now lives in Alexandria. “It’s next to the world’s largest office building. It’s a stone’s throw away from what will be the second headquarters of one of the world’s largest corporations. We’re going to need a lot more housing there, but this area is really well set up to absorb it all.”

Two bald eagles along Dulles corridor get named in Loudoun school contest: Meet Martin and Rosa — who has laid two eggs in their nest

Some Trump records taken to Mar-a-Lago clearly marked as classified, including documents at ‘top secret’ level: The existence of documents officially labeled as classified in the trove — which has not previously been reported — raises new questions about why the materials were taken out of the White House.

Opinion: Sarah Palin bombs on witness stand in New York Times trial

‘Scorched earth’ and big profits: How embattled gaming titan Bobby Kotick outlasts his opponents

Biden doesn’t want to change China. He wants to beat it. - "To the surprise of many in Washington and Beijing, the Biden administration has largely followed Trump’s lead, keeping U.S. policy toward China on a more competitive — if not confrontational — footing, an approach now favored, in varying degrees, by lawmakers in both parties and likely to last as long as China continues its great leap backward. Restraining China is now a multi-administration, bipartisan strategy that stands among the most important foreign policy adjustments since the end of the Cold War.

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"In a June Foreign Affairs essay titled 'Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China,' Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) advocated a relationship based on cooperation, not conflict. His arguments dovetail with those in official Communist Party propaganda: Don’t blame China’s aggression for the downturn in relations; blame the United States."