One analyst said that in increasingly partisan Washington, “you can argue that both Democrats and Republicans have contributed to this over the years.” “I think it’s the culmination of a procedural arms race in the U.S. Senate where, over time, presidential nominations in general have become partisan flash points,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of politics newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The U.S. military strike against Syria last night, along with the growing threat from North Korea, presents Democrats with a difficult political dilemma this morning – continue their vowed resistance of the Trump administration at every turn or rally behind the White House in the name of national unity. Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, noted, “With military action abroad, any president has a big advantage. No one knows all the facts but a few in his administration, and the focus is on the fighting troops. Critics have to be careful to praise the troops while questioning the act...
“I think that everybody banks on the American people not really following this very closely,” UVA law professor Carl Tobias said. Some believe it could begin to unravel Senate traditions at a hyper-partisan moment in politics and perhaps end up in the complete elimination of the filibuster even for legislation, which would mean an entirely different Senate from the one that’s existed for decades.
A new University of Virginia health study finds that a popular drug to treat diabetes has an unusual reaction with exercise. Professor Steven Malin is the lead research of "Exercise as Medicine: What's the right does when taken with a drug?"
(Subscription required) The History of Black Girlhood Network is a loose collective of scholars researching the experience of black girls across continents. In March the group hosted its first conference, focused on black girls’ history. The conference, held over a pair of days at the University of Virginia, brought together an array of academics, activists, artists, and students.
Although he was the first black football player at North Carolina State University, Dr. Marcus L. Martin (UVA’s vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity) admits he didn’t exactly make an indelible impression as a student-athlete. “Typically, when we had a large lead or when we were losing badly, that’s when I got to play,” Martin recalls of playing as a walk-on for the Wolfpack in the mid-to-late 1960s.
Free speech is important. It guards against governments’ dangerous tendency to repress certain kinds of communication, including protest, journalism, whistleblowing, academic research, and critical work in the arts. On the other hand, think of a doctor dispensing bogus medical advice, or someone making a contract that she plans to breach, or a defendant lying under oath in court. These all involve written or spoken statements, but they don’t seem to fall within the domain of free speech. They are what UVA legal theorist Frederick Schauer calls “patently uncovered speech”: communication that wa...
David Martin, a UVA immigration law professor, points to a November 2014 memo by former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson that curtailed deportations by not removing people who have been in the country for a long time. Violent criminals are the highest priority, as has always been the case. Next are those who have been convicted of misdemeanors other than minor traffic offenses. The third are those who were issued final deportation orders on or after Jan. 1, 2014.
“Both in terms of the use of the filibuster and changes in terms of rules to cut off the filibuster, this is not unprecedented, but exceptional, and I would say the same for the degree of partisan rancor that exists today. I would say this is the highest degree of partisanship in the history of the post-World War II era. But it is not unprecedented across the longer span of American history,” said Brian Balogh, co-host of the “BackStory With the American History Guys” podcast and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.
Rep. Tom Garrett, R-5th, held his first in-person forum with his congressional constituents last Friday at the University of Virginia, well attended by both supporters and opponents. The forum at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy was preceded by a tense demonstration outside the entrance of the building, with supporters and protesters shouting over one another in the rain, while several dozen police officers monitored the area.
The retail industry has been captivated by Amazon Go’s technology since the company unveiled the store late last year. The store uses a combination of sensors and artificial intelligence to automatically detect the food items shoppers remove from shelves, so they can leave the store without visiting a cashier – the way customers do when they bolt from an Uber. “Amazon is wonderful at frictionless commerce,” said Timothy Laseter, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
A fledgling Clarence company thinks it has discovered a way to turn a closely regulated cousin of the marijuana plant into the next big agricultural crop. 22nd Century is working with UVA researchers to plant up to 40 acres of industrial hemp as part of the state's industrial hemp pilot project.
(Co-written by UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project) The past year has served as a bracing reminder that history does not always head in a progressive direction, and that important constituencies of the progressive coalition do not always push history in a leftward direction. Now there are new signs that another prized progressive value, gender equality, may be in trouble – partly thanks to key members of the progressive coalition.
Virginia insiders expected Sanders to get in the race on behalf of Perriello. The campaign announced it hired several former Sanders staffers in February, including Julia Barnes, who served as Sanders’ national field director. Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics tried to temper comparisons between Perriello and Sanders during a January interview.
It’s never going to happen to you – until it does. And suddenly, your vacation is derailed, through no fault of your own. “You can be in a taxi and get in an accident,” notes Dr. William Brady, a professor of emergency medicine at the UVA Medical School, who also serves as the medical director for Allianz, one of the largest travel providers in the world.
The audit rate already is at a historic low, experts point out. "If they cut into that any further, it's pretty obvious what the impact would be on compliance," said George Yin, a UVA professor of law and taxation.
Scientists have started conducting experiments in a new, innovative wind tunnel recently built at Stanford University. The idea is to study how birds fly so well in both calm and turbulent air – and to use that knowledge to make better drones. Daniel Quinn, an aerospace engineer at the University of Virginia and one of the researchers who worked on the tunnel, says that birds are far more maneuverable and stable in wind gusts than even the best flying robots.
A new artificial pancreas trial in the U.S. has shown the device to be safe and effective for use in children with type 1 diabetes aged 5-8 years. This artificial pancreas has been developed by scientists at the University of Virginia and works by automatically delivering insulin to keep blood glucose levels well controlled.
Lactobacilli, beneficial bacteria commonly found in probiotics, proves to be a potential treatment for depression, according to researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Ranked No. 9, Charlottesville, Va. is rich with U.S. history. Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and his Monticello home is only a few miles away. Charlottesville ranks quite high for economic and social opportunities, thanks to its entertainment and sports notoriety.