Column: NIH is worth the return on investment for Virginia
Recently, many hasty decisions have been made in the name of increasing efficiency. While these decisions are having systemic effects across a growing number of federal agencies, I want to draw your...
View ArticleColumn: Dismantling USAID will make US less secure, prosperous
In September 2014, I arrived in Rome, eager to begin a new chapter of my humanitarian career with the World Food Programme. After two decades on the frontlines of war zones — Bosnia, Angola, Iraq,...
View ArticleEditorial: Gov. Youngkin must stand up to the White House on Virginia’s behalf
Gov. Glenn Youngkin may be the right man in the right place at the right time. He could be an influential voice of reason at a time when the nation desperately needs one. Youngkin knows that the first...
View ArticleLetters for March 3: President Trump gives Russia a green light by abandoning...
Abandoning democracy President Donald Trump has found a way to end the war in Ukraine — by surrendering. He has apparently decided to endorse a dictator and abandon Ukraine, a democratic nation and our...
View ArticleColumn: What declaring war on the AP really means
President Donald Trump’s standoff with the Associated Press over its refusal to abide by his executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico isn’t a benign dust-up between a global media institution and a...
View ArticleColumn: The real education revolution is happening at the state level
While the nation’s attention is fixated on the confirmation hearing of Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at dismantling the Department of Education, and his directives to...
View ArticleLetters for March 4: Human rights are undermined by selective outrage
Selective outrage The universal fight for human rights is increasingly undermined by selective outrage in our communities. We see an outpouring of emotions when tragedies unfold in places such as...
View ArticleColumn: Virginia’s vapor directory bills endanger small businesses
Since founding my small, veteran-owned business, I have focused on helping customers quit cigarettes. Current vapor directory bills set to go into effect July 1 containing expensive and excessive...
View ArticleEditorial: Virginia leaders must push back against potential Medicaid cuts
Republicans in Congress, hoping to be able to deliver the big tax cuts and beefed-up border security that President Donald Trump wants, have Medicaid funding in their sights as a potential source of...
View ArticleLetters for March 5: Recent treatment of Ukrainian president in Oval Office...
Embarrassed As an American citizen, I am both disgusted and embarrassed by the recent treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by our president and vice president. Ukraine has suffered...
View ArticleColumn: Trump’s Ukraine strategy echoes Chamberlain’s failed ‘appeasement’
In September 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, falsely claiming that Czechoslovakia was oppressing its German minority in the border region of the Sudetenland, was about to attack that country....
View ArticleEditorial: Firearm violence center is needed to curb gun violence in Virginia
When gun legislation lands on his desk, Gov. Glenn Youngkin often chooses to use his veto power — as he did 30 times last March — saying each of the measures would “punish law-abiding gun owners,...
View ArticleLetters for March 6: Congress should focus on child care subsidies instead of...
Child care As a single mom, I know firsthand how critical affordable child care is. Without child care subsidies, I would not have been able to afford child care and after-school care, and I certainly...
View ArticleColumn: Six suggestions for reviving civics in our democracy
Here are six suggestions for reviving civics in our democracy. First, regularly monitor the well-being of the people, focusing on households. People who are not sure when they will get another meal or...
View ArticleLetters for March 7: Measles vaccinations promote herd immunity and save...
Measles Re “Officials say Texas child dies of measles, 1st in US since ’15″ (A6, Feb. 27): I grieve for this family. Measles is preventable. I urge parents to follow the CDC’s recommended schedule for...
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