by Henry Haggard | Oct 10, 2017 | OPINION
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Dawn Adams over the phone. Adams is the Democratic candidate for the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates election in the 68th district, which includes parts of Chesterfield, Henrico, and Richmond. Adams has spent over 20 years...
by Landon Shroder | Oct 2, 2017 | OPINION
58 dead, 515 wounded. Those numbers will continue to rise throughout the afternoon and into the evening. This tends to be the rule governing mass casualty attacks like the one in Las Vegas – now being reported as the most deadly in US history. Despite this,...
by Nidhi Sharma | Sep 27, 2017 | OPINION
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that the Department of Education would be reviewing campus sexual assault guidelines passed by the during the Obama Presidency. She stated, among other things, that “through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has...
by Matthew S. Sporn | Sep 26, 2017 | OPINION
The violent clashes in Charlottesville on August 12 turned the spotlight on freedom of speech across the nation, with many asking just how much hate speech is covered under the first amendment. And just over a week ago, Richmond experienced a neo-Confederate rally on...
by Rich Meagher | Sep 25, 2017 | OPINION
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...
by Rich Meagher | Sep 15, 2017 | OPINION
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;”...
