The news is in the news. This week The Times-Dispatch’s Wes Hester reported that two student journalists at James Madison University face school...

Here’s a thought experiment: Find an empty room and go sit in it for an hour. While doing so, try to imagine not coming out for the next 10 years—while...

The Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s 2009 Conference on Virginia’s Future heard a ringing defense of free markets. Publisher Tom Silvestri described...

Last year Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Virginia since Lyndon Johnson won the state in 1964. On Tuesday, he...

The World Series was slated to start last night. On paper, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies offer a compelling match-up. Both teams have...

Candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general struggle for attention in a scene dominated by the gubernatorial race. The down-ticket nominees...

The ACLU is rightfully skeptical of a plan by Chesterfield to begin a rental-inspection program of single-family homes. The program seems needlessly intrusive—and...

The other day Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) criticized the Obama administration’s reliance on “czars.“ Sean Hannity seemed to consider...

Virginians with health insurance who review their statements often look at the bottom line and ask, “How much?“ The fact that they ask that...

Central Virginia covers about 15 districts in the House of Delegates. Over the years, few have proved competitive. Republicans and Democrats enjoy electoral...

Virginia’s roads are clogged. Health care costs are climbing, as are expenses at colleges and universities. Too many public schools fail too many...

There is no silver lining to news that International Paper will close its plant in Franklin. The mill employed about 1,100 workers. As the company explains,...

The news that Congress is moving toward official federal recognition of Virginia’s Indian tribes is welcome, albeit woefully overdue. Rep. Jim Moran...

Although The Washington Post endorsed Creigh Deeds for governor last Sunday, yesterday’s editions did not report happy news for the Democratic nominee....

The weekly Travel section of The New York Times typically includes a page detailing 36 hours in, say, Capri, Novosibirsk, Fez, Saskatoon, Hong Kong, Belo...

The Obama administration deserves credit for backing away from one of the Bush administration’s more ill-considered policies: the pursuit of medical-marijuana...

Richmond’s public-school system has developed a new program aimed at reducing the dropout rate. That’s a commendable step, made all the more...

In many ways, Bill Wasson was a walking caricature. He was gruff and cynical and big-hearted. He was a sloppy dresser but as fussy as a schoolmarm when...

Three years ago a hefty lobbying campaign by Merck, the pharmaceutical giant, led some states—including Virginia—to require Gardasil vaccinations...

The Obama administration’s strident assault on Fox News seems not only strange but unpresidential—and counterproductive. Politicians often...

Technology is a marvelous thing, and the world would be much poorer without it. Chesterfield’s intention to spend $13 million on faculty and administration...

Last month the Commentary section published a guest column by Regina Herzlinger, the first female professor to receive tenure at the Harvard Business School....

The story seemed made for cable “news”—and indeed it was. A Colorado family reported that an errant balloon with their small son aboard...

The City of Richmond is considering whether to create an additional four roundabouts at various traffic choke points in the city. Such traffic circles...

As it had done with various previous prizes, the Nobel committee recognized aspiration when it awarded the 2009 peace prize to President Barack Obama....

Rush Limbaugh should not be surprised. As someone who stokes controversy—often via personal ridicule—surely he expected the reaction to reports...

The failure on the part of state election officials to mail absentee ballots to overseas servicemen and residents in a sufficiently timely fashion violated...

The Richmond City Council may raise the rate towing companies can charge for hauling off improperly parked vehicles, as well as the daily rate for storing...

Whether Bob McDonnell still believes everything he wrote in his 1989 thesis is a fair question. So is this one: Should Creigh Deeds be the one to ask it?...

According to the clichés of political discourse, the Obama administration is trying to “move the country forward” by, for example, overhauling...