2018 could be a big year for women in politics, particularly Democratic women. In a report released Tuesday, Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics moved 17 races that he tracks from strongly favoring Republicans closer toward Democrats.
UVA’s Center for Politics says the commonwealth will play a pivotal role in the midterm elections this fall. Director Larry Sabato has released new insights into races across the country and in Virginia.
In trying to prevent school violence, a state legislative panel is looking to the future. We find ourselves intrigued by data from the past as presented at the panel’s recent meeting at the University of Virginia.
“Conservatives are more likely to have the sense that there’s an order in their life, and a commitment to order gives people a sense of meaning as well,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist and the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “To flip it, conservatives might be missing some nuances. For liberals, the capacity to see the gray in life might be valuable in some sense, but also not give them as clear a sense of meaning.”
A new Virginia law permits the use of drones for crash reconstruction, which could eliminate the need to wait several hours for investigators to survey the scene of a crash before the vehicles can be cleared off the road. Virginia State Police, VDOT and UVA and Virginia Tech researchers are working together on ways to implement drone crash reconstruction and additional drone camera systems.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies and the author of a new book, “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy,” has been a strenuous critic of the technology industry, and the book is best described by his own pithy summary: “The problem with Facebook is Facebook.” He’s spent the past several years reading and thinking with scholarly depth about not just how Facebook works, but why it was built the way that it was.
Between 1973 and 1981, Holtzman was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 16th Congressional District of New York, and went on to serve as District Attorney of King’s County (Brooklyn.) The three other outgoing members include David Martin, Professor Emeritus of International Law at the University of Virginia, and a former Department of Justice and State Department official under the Clinton and Obama administrations. Martin also penned a separate letter to Nielsen, in which he condemned the Trump administration’s immigration policies as “gratuitously severe” and criticized off...
School safety is a hot topic right now after several tragedies unfolded over the course of the last school year. On Tuesday, lawmakers gathered at UVA to talk about solutions to this recurring issue. "We do have bullying and harassing on a regular basis," says Dewey Cornell of UVA's Curry School of Education. "So a lot of our effort needs to be devoted toward more of these everyday problems, rather than focusing simply on the rather high-profile events."
Professors told Virginia lawmakers Tuesday they need to focus more on prevention if they want to improve school safety and create effective learning environments. “We prevent violence by helping all students be successful. I don’t want students to just be non-violent in school, I want them to be non-violent outside of school,” said Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education. “To do this, we need a school climate where all students feel safe, secure, encouraged, challenged and can be successful.”
Douglas Laycock, a leading authority on religious freedom at the University of Virginia Law School, described Kavanaugh’s dissent in Priests for Life as a “strongly pro-religion view of RFRA.”
In a 2013 study of Virginia long-term care facilities, professor Richard Bonnie at the UVA School of Law found that it’s “commonplace” for staff to disenfranchise residents based on a diagnosis or their perception of a resident’s mental capacity.
Despite the decision by organizer Jason Kessler to withdraw his request for a court order allowing him to stage a Unite the Right anniversary rally in Charlottesville, opponents expect the city to be full of white nationalists on Aug. 11 and Aug. 12. “The terrorists are going to come to our community anyway,” said UVA professor and Black Lives Matter organizer Lisa Woolfork. “They have already been galvanized, they got great attention from the terror they wielded here, and I think they might see it as a matter of principle.”
For decades, religious authorities have helped determine what kinds of care can be offered in Catholic institutions, based on theological concepts like the sanctity of human life. But what was permitted and forbidden wasn’t always clear to the nuns running the hospitals, according to Barbra Mann Wall, a UVA historian who has studied the evolution of Catholic health care in the U.S. As a result, doctors sometimes had more opportunities to seek exceptions for patients or offer care through loopholes in the system in the past than they do today. Now, the nuns’ role has faded and Catholic bishops ...
A prominent elections forecaster just tilted predictions in eight key House races away from male Republican candidates toward female Democratic contenders, seven of whom are challenging incumbent men. It’s another sign that 2018 could be a big year for women in politics, particularly Democratic women. In a report released Tuesday, Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia moved 17 races that he tracks from strongly favoring Republicans closer toward Democrats.
According to Donald Trump, tariffs are the greatest, while trade wars are good and easy to win. Apparently he didn’t consult with the folks in America’s so-called “heartland” about any of that. Now there’s evidence that Trump’s escalating trade war could cost his party dearly in November. This morning, political analyst Kyle Kondik, who writes the Crystal Ball newsletter for UVA’s Center for Politics, updated his ratings on 17 House races. The new ratings illustrate how anxiety in the Farm Belt is weakening Republicans’ strength there: All 17 changes were in favor of Democr...
UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said Tuesday that Democrats are the favorites to win back the House in this year’s midterm election for the first time, as he shifted 17 House races in favor of Democrats.
(Commentary co-written by Saikrishna Prakash, law professor and Miller Center fellow) Progressives are right to fear Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but it is not his views on abortion, race or gay marriage that will haunt them. Instead, Kavanaugh’s threat to liberalism lies in his hostility to the modern technocratic state, where federal bureaucracies rule with few checks and balances.
Hospitals, except for the big public ones, such as the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond and University of Virginia’s hospital in Charlottesville, will pay new taxes to cover part of the cost of Medicaid expansion and the higher reimbursement. The federal government pays for 90 percent of the cost of expansion and will pick up most of the cost of the higher reimbursements.
Both UVA cross country head coaching jobs opened this summer. One was filled by someone who was literally by the side of UVA Director of Track and Field Bryan Fetzer, while the other was filled by a coach on the other side of the country.
In 2006, Thomas Platts-Mills, an allergist at the UVA School of Medicine, received a phone call from a colleague. Oncologists testing a new drug were baffled to find that nearly one in four patients had severe anaphylactic reactions to the drug. A few patients even died. The caller urged Platts-Mills to look into the mystery.