Virginia’s data center boom and growing fears about AI, jobs and neighborhood impacts are reshaping the state’s competitive 2026 midterm elections.

Soon after President Donald Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), controversy arose over its aggressive cost-cutting and broad authority across federal agencies. The effort ...

Virginia’s closely watched 2nd Congressional District race between Republican Jen Kiggans and Democrat Elaine Luria could help decide control of the U.S. House, with rising energy prices, military dis...

Executive privilege is a legitimate constitutional protection, but it is not absolute. It should not be expanded to draw private relationships into the protected sphere of executive privilege.

The rematch between Elaine Luria and Jen Kiggans in Virginia’s 2nd congressional district could be an early indicator on election night, analysts say.

Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger poke holes in the administration’s claim that requiring preservation of official materials is unconstitutional.

With the president's polling tanking, GOP candidates in Virginia — especially John McGuire and Ben Cline — should reconsider embracing him so strongly.

COMMENTARY | Trust in agentic AI cannot be based on faith in vendors’ marketing. Leaders must engineer, require and verify that trust exists when they purchase a product.

Despite history, Trump’s unpopularity and Virginia’s blue trendlines favor Democrats in this year’s congressional races, but Democratic overreach on redistricting, budget brinkmanship, gun control and...

Despite history, Trump’s unpopularity and Virginia’s blue trendlines favor Democrats in this year’s congressional races, but Democratic overreach on redistricting, budget brinkmanship, gun control and...

Pro-Trump unity in the Senate is "beginning to splinter" as his actions slow parts of his agenda, one analyst told Newsweek.

Last week, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard gave the Kremlin an invaluable gift by releasing what she called “new intelligence” on U.S.-funded biological laboratories overseas.

Virginia’s GOP is locked in a volatile, Ovidian bind — unable to win with Trump yet unable to win without him — as its most vulnerable House members navigate a

Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger poke holes in the administration’s claim that requiring preservation of official materials is unconstitutional.

Some of the most common concerns are crime, the cost of living, the economy and concern about federal control.

Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger poke holes in the administration’s claim that requiring preservation of official materials is unconstitutional.

Janeese Lewis George leads Kenyan R. McDuffie by double-digits in the Democratic primary for D.C. mayor, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

Dig into all the numbers in our polls, look at demographic groups and examine trends over time.

Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger poke holes in the administration’s claim that requiring preservation of official materials is unconstitutional.

Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger poke holes in the administration’s claim that requiring preservation of official materials is unconstitutional.

Virginia shows how a healthy democracy works when governors and lawmakers alike fiercely defend their institutional prerogatives, creating the kind of messy, necessary push‑and‑pull that keeps executi...

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This study examines the alternative ways in which recent presidents have normalized the practice of withholding information from Congress without declaring

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Virginia Democrats’ high‑stakes push to upend the state’s voter‑mandated independent redistricting system collapsed spectacularly, a political gamble undone by legal missteps, rural backlash, and the ...

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