The city of Mason will lose hundreds of jobs by next year when the eyewear company EssilorLuxottica consolidates marketing jobs in New York and other corporate functions in Dallas.

Daniel Mason's gorgeous fifth novel tells of a yellow house deep in the woods of western Massachusetts — and its motley succession of occupants who leave their mark on the property.

At George Mason University, by keeping Mason in our name, we keep both lessons of his life active in our own quests to form a more perfect union — and certainly a better university. To my ...