Outside the Beltway

That’s not a rhetorical question.

Virginia’s governor is finding running a state harder than running a venture capitalist firm.

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?