Outside the Beltway

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

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.

Northern Virginia is slowly undoing an anachronism.

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

Six weeks is a very long time in American politics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 vise is tightening on the Catholic Church.

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents came out for an an election that can only been seen as a strong rebuke to President Trump and the Republican Party.

Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates for 2017’s Governor’s race, but the biggest name is likely to be one not on the ballot, Donald Trump.

In addition to the race in New Jersey, the statewide races in Virginia are also being looked to as a barometer of American politics in the first year of the Trump Administration.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.

Trying to explain one of the biggest surprises of Election Night 2014.

Arguably the most surprising Senate race of 2014 was in Virginia, and it’s not over yet.

Another Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on the marriage equality debate.

The Virginia Attorney General’s race recount seems to be going in favor of the Democratic candidate.

We have a certified “winner” in the Virginia Attorney General’s race, but where it heads from here is still up in the air.

The next Attorney General of Virginia will be named Mark. And that’s about all we really know at this point.

The margin in the Virginia Attorney General’s race is, quite literally, razor thin.

The race for Virginia Governor turned out to be much closer than many predicted, but that should not be a surprise.

Polls in Virginia don’t open for another 48 hours or so, but the end result has become fairly apparent when you look at the polls.

There’s still a week to go in Virginia’s Governor’s race, but it’s clear that this race is effectively over.