FAIRFAX The ground was soft and muddy, but the atmosphere was jovial. Gov. Tim Kaine and then-Attorney General Bob McDonnell were in attendance. Fried...

WASHINGTON Three years before Rep. Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who then chaired the Ways and Means Committee, had his fling with a stripper named...

Most educators are committed to the idea of giving every child every chance to succeed every day in our public schools. Yet Virginia’s 2009 on-time...

The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is at it again (“Don’t Make Virginia Do Tenn. Two-Step,“ Sept. 28) when it claims the...

CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a decade, liberal lawmakers have argued that federal “hate crimes” laws should be expanded to include sexual...

WASHINGTON As Harvard’s president, Larry Summers, economist and former Treasury secretary, was a lion in a den of Daniels. The faculty Daniels, their...

WASHINGTON What can government do to crank up America’s creaky job machine? We’ll be arguing ferociously about that in coming months, and the...

WASHINGTON As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears. The answer...

Another in a series of imaginary conversations with Barack Obama. Actual quotations appear in quotation marks . . . Yo Mr. President. Hey. I see you’re...

Editor’s note: The following letters were sent to Philip A. Leone, director of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, by the parties...

The repeal of Prohibition did not utterly eradicate the production of moonshine, in part because repeal was only partial itself. But Prohibition’s...

WASHINGTON Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political...

STAUNTON As debates about climate change and health care engulf America, we cannot overlook a recent anniversary marking one lost year and counting. When...

ARLINGTON Earlier this month, it was announced in Washington that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be named the lead sponsor...

On Oct. 1, Beijing marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (more precisely, the consolidation of power by the...

WASHINGTON Every generation of Americans should live better than its predecessor. That’s Americans’ core definition of economic “progress.“...

WASHINGTON Virginia women have plenty of reason to feel offended by their state’s gubernatorial race, though not because the Republican candidate...

Wandering among issues currently in the news . . . The unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent in September—the 21st consecutive month of job losses....

Virginians are being fed a hefty dose of PR lately by those who would open our coast for the first time ever to offshore oil and gas drilling. They claim...

The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious—particularly about things like war, about which until...

For those whose lives revolve primarily around real people in real time and real space, hurry, go hide. Here’s what you missed in the social networking...

I suppose there is something charming about watching conservative politicians in Texas trying so ardently to preserve a same-sex marriage. How else can...

WASHINGTON In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas’ trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there....

Los Angeles Times: Preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is a bit like achieving peace between the Israelis and Palestinians—the steps we...

Critics of the various health care reform proposals currently before Congress have focused on a variety of flaws, from the extraordinarily high costs to...

WASHINGTON Last Thursday, the president’s “engagement” with Iran began. This Wednesday, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will enter its ninth...

WASHINGTON How close did we come to the Great Depression 2.0? That question will spawn a cottage industry of books, studies, and conferences. But Christina...

During October, Virginia will host two of the largest gun shows in North America: the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly (yesterday and today) and the...

President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.—French...

‘Sfunny in this hour of Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and Iraq that perhaps nothing tells us quite so much about the incumbent D.C. administration...