The research was done before the pandemic, but it’s “hugely connected to current conditions and, I think, has huge implications for how we proceed,” lead researcher Daphna Bassok, associate professor of education and policy at the University of Virginia, said in a webinar last week hosted by Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy.
(Commentary) Since I’ve been writing this column, I know I’ve harped a lot on the division we see in our nation, but there’s a reason — it’s the most important issue facing the United States. The reason I bring it up again is because of a piece which appeared on Sept. 30 on the UVA Center for Politics regarding a project the Center and Project Home Fire have undertaken to use polling and data analytics to “identify America’s political fissures, and explain ways to foster compromise.” I fully support the optimistic tone of the UVA Center’s author in that they want to “explain ways to foster com...
(Podcast; commentary) A new poll from the University of Virginia shows that huge swaths of Americans despise each other … but does that matter?
Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock’s recent book, “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War,”, draws evidence from interviews with some 1,000 people who participated in the war, including U.S. military officers, officials, aid workers, and Afghan leaders. The book also draws on interviews conducted by the U.S. Army and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Constantly dieting may not only cause you to gain more weight in the end, but also lead to a slew of health problems. “A lot of the diseases associated with yo-yo dieting are similar to the diseases that are linked to obesity,” says study co-author Siddhartha Angadi, an assistant professor of education in UVA’s Department of Kinesiology. “Yo-yo dieting has been shown to increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. Yo-yo dieting has been shown to increase your risk of certain cancers. It has been shown to increase levels of inflammation. This is very much a case of where the ‘cure’ – tel...
(Co-written by Adam Lieve, assistant professor in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) Proponents of work requirements for social safety net programs argue that they promote self-sufficiency by encouraging work, while opponents contend that they reduce benefits for the most vulnerable recipients in times of need. This column looks at the impact of the reinstatement of work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the U.S. following a hiatus during the Great Recession. The authors find that work requirements do not appear to improve economic self-sufficien...
Hamilton Lombard, a demographer for UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, said he found several instances of population counts that didn’t match with what’s going on in college towns.
Once a bustling Black community filled with Black-owned establishments, the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, allowed its residents to flourish shortly after reconstruction. But the community endured a series of racially motivated attacks that led to its tragic end in 1921. The timeline of events leading from Greenwood’s inception to the Tulsa massacre and its restoration are captured in the documentary, “The Legacy of Black Wall Street,” directed by Deborah Riley Draper. UVA’s Center for Politics invited Draper to Charlottesville to host a viewing of her two-part docu-series at the Ting ...
Masks will continue to be necessary for indoor spaces at the University of Virginia. A letter sent to the UVA community on Friday announced that all people, vaccinated or not, will be required to wear a mask while inside spaces owned by the university of spaces it leases through at least the end of October.
If you plan to go to an event or game at John Paul Jones Arena anytime soon, you’ll need to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccine or a negative COVID-19 test. The policy goes into effect Oct. 18.
Monday’s meeting of the Charlottesville City Council came with fireworks. Councilors disagreed on how to address the violence near the University of Virginia and the debate on whether to increase police presence near Grounds. It all started after two mothers of UVA students spoke, asking for more policing.
The handwritten manuscript of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece ,“The Grapes of Wrath,” complete with the swearwords excised from the published novel and revealing the urgency with which the author wrote, is to be published for the first time. The manuscript itself, the only one of “The Grapes of Wrath,” is kept in the University of Virginia’s archives.
(Video and transcript) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in UVA’s Divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, discusses the latest coronavirus developments.
Libby Stropko Baird: Baird graduated from the University of Virginia’s law school in 2019 and clerked for Judge Kevin C. Newsom of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and for Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the US District Court for D.C. She was the Virginia Law Review’s articles editor.
(Subscription required) With a hand repeatedly thumping over his heart and tears glistening in his eyes, Ryan Zimmerman paced in front of the home dugout at Nationals Park on Sunday afternoon. The crowd in the stands above him roared. His teammates and coaches applauded. His opponents started their own standing ovation.
In early September, just before President Biden ordered 80 million workers to get vaccinated or undergo regular testing, a question went viral on the internet. “Would y’all report your unvaccinated co-worker(s) for $200K?” asked @RevampedCP on Twitter. … “I was not expecting this,” says Arianny Mercedes, the career strategist and public policy student at the University of Virginia who dashed off the original tweet as she contemplated how far people would be willing to go to get back to “normal.”
Recently, Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, complained on Twitter that he had not yet received his requested mail-in ballot for the upcoming Nov. 2 election. “NO BALLOT YET (or any other mail for days — and I get a lot),” he said in a tweet. “How many Virginians are in this predicament? I suspect many are.”
People who are having issues getting their mail are likely getting anxious about their mail-in ballot if they requested one. Local and state leaders say this problem needs to be addressed immediately. “This is going to impact voting because people are not getting their mailed ballots,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He was supposed to get his mail-in ballot weeks ago, but his mailbox remains empty. “I’ve gotten no mail except for about five days in September,” said Sabato. “Five days.”
After aggressive redistricting proposals advanced before the 2012 elections, courts required states like Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina to redraw their maps in the middle of the decade, costing Republicans seats — and, in 2018, their majority in the House. “There’s a good argument to be made that without those mid-decade redistricting [requirements], Republicans would have taken the majority in 2020,” said J. Miles Coleman, a redistricting expert and associate editor at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It shows you how fragile the Democrats’ majority is right now, ...
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told me he thinks the 2019 scandals have “zero impact” on the November 2 vote. “If anything is pulling down McAuliffe, it is Biden’s sinking ratings, along with the inability of the Democrats in Congress — to this point — to get their act together and reach a reasonable compromise,” Sabato opined. If Congress passes some big bills, that could help McAuliffe. Youngkin’s ties to Trump could hurt the political novice, Sabato added, with “the large majority of Virginians who voted against Trump last November.” Y...