Bloomberg reported Monday that President Trump exploded in anger at a statement from the Justice Department warning that it would be “extraordinarily reckless” to publicize what’s come to be known as the Nunes memo without a security review. In response, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly conveyed Trump’s anger to Justice Department officials and “lectured them on the White House’s expectations,” according to the report. Saikrishna Prakash, an expert on the separation of powers at the UVA School of Law, cautioned in a phone interview that there were not enough publicly available detail...
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law, said appointing a special prosecutor in a case with an officer-involved shooting is a must. “It is strongly recommended that prosecutors appoint special prosecutors in investigations of police,” Garrett wrote in an email Tuesday.
A local researcher is embarking on a two-year study to try to understand how young people develop their political views and reasoning. Kevin Meuwissen, an associate professor at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education, hopes his research will inform how politics is taught in schools. A UVA study used an analogy to characterize a common approach to political thinking. "Their analogy is that people tend to behave more like lawyers defending clients (their ethical and cultural values) rather than behaving like scientists investigating open public policy questions," said Meuwissen...
The national prominence of opioid abuse, and a local organization’s outreach effort, has led a local women’s philanthropy organization to host a panel of experts on the topic on Feb. 27. Dorrie Fontaine, dean of UVA’s School of Nursing, will moderate the discussion. Panelists include Dr. Paul V. Targonski, associate professor of medicine and public health at UVA.
A new paper by UVA economist Christopher Ruhm suggests that economic conditions can only help explain a small fraction of the increase in drug mortality rates. This is potentially good news that could offer hope in the fight against drug deaths.
Doctors say some of the medications people take to combat the viral infection could actually slow down their recovery. “You can overdose on certain medications, and one of the biggest ones that's in multi-symptoms and a variety of different medications is Tylenol. And it’s pretty easy to overdose on Tylenol,” said UVA primary care physician Dr. John Davison.
Thomas Jefferson believed with more certainty than any of the other Founding Fathers that it was architecture that provided the ideal way for new nation-builders to express greatness. “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture & Design,” a new exhibition at the Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, explores the aspirational ways that Jefferson tried to forge that identity into something both cultured and uniquely American.
The UVA men’s basketball team (20-1, 9-0 ACC) remains ranked No. 2 this week in the Associated Press poll behind first-place Villanova (20-1).
While politicians on the left and right often talk a good game about reaching across the aisle, there are powerful factors pushing back against bipartisanship cooperation, particularly as the midterm elections get closer. "The election year dynamic is the most important aspect," said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics. "So I'm highly skeptical that you're going to see the president able to lead a bipartisan effort to move many elements of his agenda forward in an election year."
As the Trump administration and the nation prepare for President Trump's first State of the Union message on Tuesday, local political experts say he has a lot of work to do. Political analyst Geoff Skelly at UVA’s Center For Politics says despite what Trump says in his speech, his history of changing his mind on the issues will follow him.
Larry Sabato, the well-known founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, had a different – albeit sarcastic – suggestion. "Why not sell each paragraph to the highest bidder?" he asked, rhetorically, on Twitter, suggesting it could say: "This section brought to you by..."
Trump’s desire to dismiss Mueller last June, confirmed by three people familiar with the matter, highlights new political problems for the president, but probably won’t increase his risk of being charged with obstruction of justice, according to legal specialists. That sort of explanation won’t satisfy other people, who tend to think the president is corrupt, said Saikrishna Prakash, who lectures on presidential power at the University of Virginia law school.
President Donald Trump aims to use his State of the Union address Tuesday night to boost funding for his 2020 re-election campaign, promising to display the names of campaign donors during a live broadcast of the speech. “Why not sell each paragraph to the highest bidder?” joked Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The UVA Health System is celebrating nearly 200 of its doctors making a list of the best in America. The 195 UVA physicians on this year's Best Doctors in America List represent a range of specialties - from family medicine to neurology and dermatology.
The UVA Health System has collaborated with industry partners Epic and Carestream Health to create a better way to view X-rays and other imaging tests and then impart that information through a technique called interactive multimedia radiology reporting.
Breastfeeding an infant for at least two months cuts a baby’s risk of SIDS almost in half, according to an international study published in the journal Pediatrics. Moms don’t even need to breastfeed exclusively to get the benefit. “These results are very powerful! Our study found that babies who are breastfed for at least two months have a significant reduction in their risk of dying from SIDS,” said researcher Kawai Tanabe of the UVA School of Medicine. “Breastfeeding is beneficial for so many reasons, and this is really an important one.”
New population estimates put Virginia's annual population growth rate this decade at it's lowest since the 1920s. According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, several factors are contributing to this, including a decrease in birth rate, an increase in the number of deaths, and more domestic out-migration or people moving out of Virginia instead of into it.
Tidewater is becoming a more popular place to live, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The center creates population estimates for Virginia localities every year, which are based on factors such as births, deaths, school enrollment and residential housing construction.
The latest statewide population projection shows continued growth in the number of people calling the Shenandoah Valley home, with more than 80,000 living in Rockingham County for the first time. A study from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service estimating the number of people living in Virginia was released last week.
Still the fastest-growing county in Virginia, according to a UVA survey, Loudoun now has more than 396,000 residents. In the last decade, more than 60 percent of Virginia’s population growth has been concentrated in Northern Virginia, according to latest population estimates released by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.