A federal panel voted earlier this month to amend the guidelines that federal judges use when sentencing people who commit economic crimes. But few are happy with those changes: Sentencing reform advocates say they don't go far enough to fix draconian sentences, while the U.S. Department of Justice contends that the changes could give some white-collar criminals a new avenue for unfair leniency. Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, pointed out that under the current guidelines, there is still "no comparison" between the severity of d...
Ultimately, the central question for U.S. officials may be whether serving notice to Putin and his propaganda apparatus is worth sullying America’s commitment to freedom of the press. Fred Schauer, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, told me that registering RT under FARA would not violate the First Amendment, mainly due to the Supreme Court’s Meese v. Keene decision of 1987, which established that since FARA and its labeling of certain materials as propaganda neither “prohibits, edits, or restrains the distribution of materials,” registra...
Constituents demanding a solution to the Legislature’s budget impasse over Medicaid expansion have been emailing Rep. Richard Corcoran, who has been telling voters that the federal program is dangerous for its patients. "Unfortunately, those Floridians belong to a troubled delivery system," Corcoran wrote. "The largest national study, conducted by the University of Virginia, found that Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance. Expanding coverage through a health care program that delivers questionable care is not a public polic...
Like it or not, the next president must deal with the world President Obama leaves behind. It won’t be easy. A Republican president will be committed to reversing a significant chunk of Mr. Obama’s legacy, as most GOP candidates already are. That’s a gigantic undertaking. A Democratic president, presumably Hillary Clinton, will be forced to defend Mr. Obama’s policies, since they reflect the views of her party. That will leave little time for fresh Democratic initiatives. That won’t happen with a Republican president and Congress. “If a Republ...
A court hearing Wednesday could determine whether John Hinckley Jr., the man who nearly killed President Ronald Reagan in a bid to win the affection of actress Jodie Foster, is granted nearly-permanent leave from the psychiatric facility that's housed him for decades. "In terms of the management of insanity acquittees, generally, it is common to have this very carefully titrated doses of liberty approach, with gradual doses of freedom and a fairly tight monitoring system," explained University of Virginia law professor Richard Bonnie, who specializes in mental health and criminal...
“There’s no question that Walker’s economic record in Wisconsin will be fair game in the GOP nomination battle and, if he makes it that far, in the fall campaign,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political science professor and founder of Sabato’s Crystal Ball , a well-regarded, nonpartisan online political analysis newsletter. “A two-term governor owns his state’s economic realities, and the public generally sees it that way too.
The last three presidents will be remembered for many things, in great part due to the technological advancements made on their watch. “Presidents always invoke advances in technology to further their domestic and foreign policy goals,” said Andrew Meade McGee, a historian at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, adding that Americans “like to tie notions of progress to the position of the president, who both uses new technologies and shapes technology as a policymaker and uses it to promote policy goals.”
Demographers expect the percentage of Virginians with cancer will increase significantly as both the number of people living in the commonwealth grows and ages. The Weldon Cooper Center for Population at the University of Virginia compiled the report.
The growing minority population in Newport News, and nationwide, is mainly because of birth, not immigration, said Qian Cai, who researches demographics for the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. "The minority population who are here, they tend to be young," Cai said. "They come here to work or study. They are also the ones having families and having kids. The older population tends to be white."
In times of crisis, countless University of Virginia students have turned to Associate Dean Nicole Eramo. From her campus office in Peabody Hall, Eramo counsels young adults — mostly women — in the aftermath of what is in most cases the darkest moment of their lives: deciding what to do after they have been sexually assaulted. In her first public remarks about the Rolling Stone account since it was published online six months ago, Eramo on Wednesday assailed the magazine for its “false and grossly misleading” portrayal of her efforts to help students in need. “Usi...
A photo illustration packaged with Rolling Stone’s debunked University of Virginia gang rape expose raises ethical questions beyond the magazine’s shattered reporting, experts said Wednesday. The illustration depicts UVa Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo in what appears to be an office, with a lamp in the right frame, a student with her head in her hand in the foreground and protesters holding signs seen through a window in the background.
Photographer Ed Roseberry showed photos of Charlottesville from the 1940's through the 1980's at an event at C'ville Coffee Wednesday night. Ninety-year-old Roseberry began taking photos of the city as a University of Virginia student after returning from World War II. Roseberry's camera captured the Downtown Mall when it was still a two-way street, UVA fraternity parties in the 40's, and famous visitors like Queen Elizabeth and Chuck Berry.
The U.S. Department of Education has recognized five Virginia schools for promoting energy efficiency and environmental awareness. The schools were among dozens nationwide recognized by the Green Ribbon Schools Program on Wednesday. The Virginia schools are Coles Elementary School in Manassas; Crozet Elementary School in Crozet; Bassett High School in Bassett; the Steward School in Richmond; and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The university also received the Postsecondary Sustainability Award.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan has been elected by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a member of its 2015 class.
(By John M. Owen IV, Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia) Nearly a century after it first emerged in Egypt, political Islam is redefining the Muslim world. Also called Islamism, this potent ideology holds that the billion-strong global Muslim community would be free and great if only it were pious—that is, if Muslims lived under state-enforced Islamic law, or sharia, as they have done for most of Islamic history. Islamists have long been confronted by Muslims who reject sharia and by non-Muslims who try to get them to r...
The conceptualization of today's "patient" as a consumer of healthcare is a premise that, fully established or not, the healthcare industry at large is organizing itself around with all the zeal and determination of a tent convert. All of this begs the question: Do patients even want to be consumers? Many physicians report that the answer is "no." The evolution of the patient into the consumer occurred in two distinct waves, according to Carolyn Engelhard, a health policy expert at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
A court hearing Wednesday could determine whether John Hinckley Jr., the man who nearly killed President Ronald Reagan in a bid to win the affection of actress Jodie Foster, is granted nearly-permanent leave from the psychiatric facility that's housed him for decades. "In terms of the management of insanity acquittees, generally, it is common to have this very carefully titrated doses of liberty approach, with gradual doses of freedom and a fairly tight monitoring system," explained University of Virginia law professor Richard Bonnie, who specializes in mental health and criminal...
Matthew B. Crawford’s first book, the best-selling Shop Class as Soulcraft(2009), established him as a polemical champion of the superiority, mental and moral, of manual labor over the kind of employment typically sought by college graduates, including any work done on a computer and in a cubicle. For some readers, the fact that the author had earned a doctorate in political philosophy and also owned a motorcycle-repair shop lent a certain kick-ass authenticity to his enterprise. Now ensconced at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,...
A New York judge has ordered the state to justify why two chimpanzees allegedly kept at a Long Island public university and used as research subjects shouldn’t be transferred to an animal sanctuary in south Florida. “Maybe [Judge Jaffe] is at least intrigued by the question of whether they’re ‘persons’ and wants to have a hearing to hash it out,” University of Virginia Law School professor Brandon Garrett, an expert on criminal procedure, told Law Blog.
Can an Alzheimer’s patient with dementia so severe she can’t remember her daughters’ names or how to eat a hamburger consent to have sex with her husband? That’s the stark question raised by the case of Henry Rayhons, the former Iowa state legislator who, as the New York Times reported last week, has been charged with third-degree felony sexual assault for allegedly raping his wife, Donna Lou Rayhons, in her nursing home. To John Portmann, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of The Ethics of Sex and Alzheimer’s...