No reform so far, including those in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, has been able to fix what’s wrong with our health insurance system: Despite its huge costs, the system still fails to give everyone affordable care.
Virginians enjoy the reliability and mobility that gasoline-powered vehicles give them, and for good reason. Yes, there’s a revolution coming in transportation. But it may well be a consumer revolt against politicians who tell them they have to buy an electric car.
Montana has made an unprecedented move to become the first U.S. state to ban TikTok.
TikTok is a weapon of social destruction. Created by ByteDance, a Bejing-based company, TikTok is a platform of the Chinese Communist Party and a national security threat to America.
Proponents forcing religious dogma upon believers and non-believers alike no longer even bother to deny that’s what they’re doing. “There is absolutely no separation of God and government,” one Texas lawmaker declared, in defiance of the plain language of the Constitution. “It’s not real.”
When the statue of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was unveiled 50 years ago in Jackson Ward, it broke a color barrier of sorts in the city of monuments — the first known statue to memorialize a Black person in Richmond.
Youngkin did two important things that deserved more attention than they got. They were overshadowed by two things that got more attention than they deserved.
I am seeing firsthand several types of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (AMR) and fungi that are emerging and re-emerging. In the United States, more than 2.8 million AMR infections occur annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resulting in 35,000 deaths.
Evelyn T. Butts, who died in 1993, has left a legacy of grassroots leadership that can inspire us in our struggles against today’s voter suppression schemes, such as new laws restricting voting access and policies that intimidate voters and election officials. She showed that consistent and persistent grassroots engagement was as necessary to advance and preserve voting rights as lawsuits and legislation.
Rising temperatures and summer often mean fun family vacations.
I’ve never had a smartphone or used social media, and I’m in my 40s. So when I see young people such as 17-year-old Logan Lane and those in her “Luddite Club” take a stand and pause the technology that’s been in their lives since birth, I am in awe.
Texas is currently America's leader in wind and solar power. It provides 28% of America's wind energy. If it were a country, it would be the fifth biggest source. Surprisingly, it's about to eclipse California in production of solar power.
The West Virginia senator owes House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a big thank you.
🎧 The performers we see on stage, in film and on television are more diverse than ever, but this welcome change doesn’t mean there aren’t still many questions.
A slew of high-profile politicos - Democrats and Republicans - issuing endorsements in some of their parties' more contentious legislative nominating contests.
Here we go again.
A rationale behind the nomination of Greg Coleman to the Hanover County School Board failed to place public education above religious dogma.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recently confirmed that student loan repayments would begin again later in 2023, delivering what is likely to be a severe financial shock to borrowers who have not had to make payments for three years. This puts greater urgency on lawmakers to fix the flaws in the best idea for easing the transition: the "income-driven repayment" plan.
Much attention in the culture wars tends to focus on how wacky the far right can be when it comes to embracing wild conspiracy theories and internet misinformation. Think child-abuse kidnapping rings operating out of a Washington pizza parlor. Or the nutty idea that a gun massacre of kids at a Connecticut elementary school was a hoax.
Kelli and Michael Paul catch up on the national mental health conversation and the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train and how race factors into the equation.
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This is an opinion column from The Times-Dispatch opinion page.
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This is an opinion column from The Times-Dispatch opinion page.
This is an opinion column from The Times-Dispatch opinion page.
This is an opinion column from The Times-Dispatch opinion page.
This is an opinion column from The Times-Dispatch opinion page.