Melinda Burrell: Your brain on elections
We’ll all still be in the same country when the election is over. Our democracy needs calm citizens working together – and talking at Thanksgiving.
We’ll all still be in the same country when the election is over. Our democracy needs calm citizens working together – and talking at Thanksgiving.
The recent conflict between the United States and Saudi Arabia over Riyadh’s decision to cut its oil production by 2 million barrels a day should be addressed in the context of their long and extensive relationship.

The Abigail Spanberger campaign is fired up about the effort she says was initiated by her Republican challenger to have a right-wing radio host serve as a co-moderator of an upcoming Seventh District congressional debate.

After pummeling Cuba, Hurricane Ian was among the most powerful and devastating hurricanes to make landfall in the US.

We hear that reproductive rights are on the ballot, in a bid to elect lawmakers who will codify reproductive rights into black letter law. Anything else on the ballot?

Just after the November 2020 election– a clear and convincing victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump— our Sixth District Republican Congressman Ben Cline began enabling lies about massive fraud and illegal voting.

Congressman Don Beyer slammed Republicans for their “economically catastrophic” plan to gut Medicare and Social Security.
Show of hands: Who wants the US to be a dictatorship? Ah, no one? Well, almost no one. We see your hand, Mr. Trump.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Donald Trump ends up not running for president in 2024, for whatever reason.

The Youngkin administration is blaming technical issues for a backlog of more than 107,000 voter record changes.