Ralph Northam should win Tuesday’s election. If you’ve paid any attention to local and national media, you probably have heard that this race has been tightening for weeks. This is understandable; mainstream media outlets are famously prone to horserace coverage, and...
Last week brought us the worst political ad in Virginia and it wasn’t Dan Helmer. Apologies to RVAMag’s Political Director. He’s totally right about all the ways Dan Helmer’s ad was a bad idea, it’s just that this ad is even worse. We now have the Republican candidate...
I'm teaching a class in Social Movements this semester. This has proven to be good timing, in the sense that neo-Nazis were just running amok down the street in Charlottesville - how helpful! (Uh, actually no. Murdering Nazis are never "good;" let's just say it's been...