If Virginians elect Abigail Spanberger as governor this November, they’ll get more of the same — reasonable-sounding proposals followed by hard left actions and legislation.
When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery.
Today, bad guys lurk in the amorphous world of cyberspace, which for so many kids has displaced the safer meeting spaces — the basketball courts and ballfields, the youth clubs and fast-food joints — that I recall from my youth.
🎧 When people feel powerless about political shifts, they seek ways to push back. This episode explores different forms of activism, their effectiveness and whether they create meaningful change.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been Health and Human Services secretary for little more than a week, but he’s already pressing what looks like an anti-vaccine agenda. Kennedy never did disavow his vaccine views in the runup to Senate confirmation. He merely said he wouldn’t take away anyone’s vac…
On the day before the third anniversary of the brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine, "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether it's "fair to say" that Russia's attack was unprovoked. Hegseth responded that it's "fair to say it's a very complicated …
Ukraine on Monday marked the bleakest anniversary yet of its war against the Russian invasion, with the country's forces under severe pressure on the battlefield and U.S. President Donald Trump's administration apparently embracing the Kremlin in a reversal of U.S. policy.
The results of Youngkin’s education policies are in, and they are a disaster for Virginia’s students. Instead of addressing the real challenges — math recovery, reading gaps, teacher shortages — his administration has spent its time pushing an extremist agenda that does nothing to improve learning outcomes.
NIMBY stands for "not in my backyard." It's often employed as a shaming tool to portray those unwilling to turn their neighborhoods over to developers as selfish or even racist. It's a weapon in efforts to plow through zoning laws put in place to preserve a sense of community and the comfort of continuity.
Say what you will about the whirlwind first month of President Donald Trump’s second term, but even his vocal critics couldn’t accuse him of avoiding the media or tough questions.
The current technique of throwing people out of work with no advance notice is something I have never witnessed, completely ignoring the human factor of downsizing. These are fellow Americans. What have they done to induce such purposeful trauma from our president?
The accumulation of power in the same hands — whether elected or not — in the view of James Madison and others is the definition of tyranny. The encroaching sprit of power is not just involved in the grasping of more power, but also in the dismissal of the constitutional powers and prerogatives of the other branches.
The Associated Press has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that its First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated. The lawsuit claims the White House barred its reporters from press events after the AP refused to adopt the administration's renaming of the Gulf of Me…
For the first time in 30 years, Richmond and its suburban neighbors are contemplating a truly regional government authority.
Wherever one lands on the ideological spectrum, no matter your politics, morality, religion, or “gender ideology,” the idea that female athletes must be protected from domineering “biological males” posing as transgender women is irrational and baseless.
When you campaign on the promise to remove 11 million or more undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who are “poisoning the blood of our country,” it’s disingenuous to accuse other people of fearmongering. Just two weeks into Trump’s second term, the fear within our most vulnerable communities is all too real.
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If Virginians elect Abigail Spanberger as governor this November, they’ll get more of the same — reasonable-sounding proposals followed by hard left actions and legislation.
When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery.
Today, bad guys lurk in the amorphous world of cyberspace, which for so many kids has displaced the safer meeting spaces — the basketball courts and ballfields, the youth clubs and fast-food joints — that I recall from my youth.
🎧 When people feel powerless about political shifts, they seek ways to push back. This episode explores different forms of activism, their effectiveness and whether they create meaningful change.
The recent decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is not just a blow to international aid — it is a direct assault on Virginia’s economy.
Thank you for covering the decision by Sens. Scott Surovell, Mamie Locke and the Democratic caucus in the Virginia Senate to strip Sen. Jennifer Boysko of her chairmanship of the Senate Transportation Committee and seat on the Rules Committee just for standing up for her constituents ("Boysk…
Michael Shank’s Feb. 7 column ("Despite assault on clean energy, the future remains bright for solar") notes that location choices for solar power are critical. The recently passed bill promoting solar canopies over large parking lots (House Bill 2037, sponsored by Del. David Bulova, D-Fairf…
President Donald Trump has achieved some major impacts with his imposition of a 90-day hold on foreign assistance. He is sparking anger and hostility toward the United States in place of the goodwill that has been generated by USAID services and assistance programs.