
The jackboots are coming: Mass arrests, power grabs and the politics of fear
How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none?

How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none?

Today the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced legislation written by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) to improve the cybersecurity of Internet-connected devices.

There are a lot of records that would be great to break. This isn’t one of them: June 16 marks the longest period in history without an increase since the federal minimum wage was established in 1938.

Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.

Athlon and Street and Smith’s have UVA Football winning the ACC Coastal Division and in their national Top 25 for 2019.

Virginia Tech has its largest cohort of Fulbright U.S. Student grant recipients in university history, with five students and two alumnae participating in projects during the 2019-20 academic year.

On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the end of Kosovo war, the country is facing a dramatic large-scale brain drain.

Benjamin Netanyahu has served as prime minister of Israel for the past 11 years, coinciding with Hamas’ rule over Gaza ever since it usurped power in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority after a brief violent confrontation between the two sides.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled new legislation, The Loan Shark Prevention Act, to combat the predatory lending practices of America’s big banks and protect consumers.

The Cville Immigrant Bond Fund will officially launch at a free kick-off event, Wednesday May 8, 5-7 p.m., at Oakhart Social, 511 West Main Street, Charlottesville.
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