Outside the Beltway

It took more than 24 hours but traffic is moving again.

When life doesn’t imitate art.

It’s usually more effective to run for something rather than against someone.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

My home state has become the first in the South to join the trend.

Parents can’t homeschool their kids and hold down jobs indefinitely.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

The lockdowns are ending and likely not coming back.

A surprisingly slow response from a governor who has been proactive during the crisis.

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

A fiasco wrapped in a clusterfuck.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

A disgraced governor is signing a wave of progressive legislation

The university is welcoming students back to campus, even as classes are going online.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

A long overdue correction.

Nine months after what seemed like the end of his political career, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has mounted a comeback,

The Democratic victory in Virginia’s legislative elections has revived hopes for advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment, Even if Virginia does become the 38th state to ratify the measure, though, the actual status of the Amendment is exceedingly unclear.

Virginia voters don’t like Donald Trump, or Republicans in general, very much right now, and that could translate into Democrats taking control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the latest politician to apologize for donning blackface while she was in college.

An independent review of the racist photo on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook was unsurprisingly inconclusive.

Virginia Democrats had a good fundraising quarter despite the scandals enveloping their top three officeholders.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

Twenty days after we learned about racist yearbook photos and everything that followed from it, there’s been no action against any of Virginia’s top political leaders. Don’t expect to see it either.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

Polling continues to suggest that voters in Virginia are not nearly as concerned with the past behavior of state leaders as the political establishment might be.

A new poll shows that Virginians don’t necessarily believe their state leaders need to step aside in the wake of recent scandals.

In a replay of last week, Virginia’s top Democrats are calling on a state official to resign. This time, though, it’s Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.

Another Friday, another political mess for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

After a week of scandal and chaos in Virginia politics, there’s no sign that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is going anywhere, and there’s very little that can be done to force him out of office.

It’s reasonable and just to adjust our outrage based on the context of the time when incidents occurred.

The Virginia political dumpster fire has brought in a Republican this time.

The cases of Ralph Northam and Mark Herring raise a question of when, if ever, something we did in the past should follow us for the rest of our lives.

A man somehow got elected governor without being very good at politics.

All three of the elected state officials in Virginia are under some kind of cloud, and nobody seems to know what’s going to happen next.

All three of the Commonwealth’s statewide elected officers are the subject of scandal.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

The Northam situation shows the rigidity of separation of powers systems.

Virgnia’s governor has to resign. But not because of some 35-year-old photos.

A reading recommendation.

There’s a good reason why Democrats want Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to get out of the way sooner rather than later.

Despite overwhelming calls for his resignation, Ralph Northam is refusing to step down as Governor of Virginia.

National and Virginia Democratic officials are calling on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over racist photos in his 1984 medical school yearbook.

There’s not really a good explanation for this, Governor Northam.

Amazon has reportedly decided to split its second headquarters between an already urbanized area of Northern Virginia and the outer boroughs of New York City.

Senator Tim Kaine continues to maintain a huge lead over Corey Stewart in the Virginia Senate Race.

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

A newly released poll has encouraging signs for Democrats in 2018, but there are several caveats.

Republican David Yancy was declared the winner of a disputed election, giving the GOP a slim one-seat majority in the state’s House of Delegates.