What can public policy do to create more two-parent households? I discuss that and related matters with Prof. Brad Wilcox, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he directs The Home Economics Project. Inaugurated in the fall of 2013, the research project explores the links between family structure and economic growth in 20 countries around the world — more specifically, how marriage and a strong family life foster free enterprise. Wilcox is also an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Virginia, where he directs the National Marria...
The University of Virginia School of Law is once again in the top 10 nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report. The university’s schools of business, medicine, education and engineering also received high marks.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is one of 28 hospitals around the country participating in a series of neurological clinical trials. UVa recently enrolled in NeuroNEXT – Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials – allowing the hospital to participate in large-scale trials for treatments of various brain and neurological conditions.
"The talkathon is an effort by Democrats to let the environmental movement know they haven't forgotten about climate change, even though party and philosophical polarization doesn't permit real legislative action. It's a collective valentine headlined 'We Care' to a vital constituency in the Democratic Party that produces money and workers in a midterm election year," said Larry Sabato, a professor of American politics at the University of Virginia.
(By Joshua Dunn, associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, and Martha Derthick, professor emerita of government at the University of Virginia) Insisting that it was not hostile to vouchers—or, by extension, to the children, parents, or private schools that could benefit from them—the Obama administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in August 2013 mounted an attack on Governor Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana voucher program that shocked the editorial page of the Washington Post (“Voucher Madness,” September 2, 2...
On April 5, the foundation plans to team up with about 200 students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business to remake 11 homes and a church in the Charlottesville area.
A Japanese architect, a former U.S. senator and a high-profile attorney will receive this year’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The award, co-sponsored by the University of Virginia, is UVa’s highest honor — the university does not award honorary degrees. Each year, UVa, in conjunction with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello, presents medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership, in honor of the third president of the United States.
Robert Turner, associate director at the center for national security law at the University of Virginia School of Law, believes that as a practical matter, Snowden should have gone to oversight committees or the inspector general without much fear of retaliation. ”I am very confident that had he gone to the Hill committees or the NSA or DOD or ODNI IGs, it would have been difficult for anyone to engage in retribution against him without considerable personal cost,” he said. ”I can’t imagine that there is anyone in a senior position in D.C. dealing with the I...
What these so-called laws do not do, however, is directly implicate First Amendment protections. Idaho, in other words, won't likely have its new law overturned by the courts solely on constitutional grounds. "First Amendment law says nothing about whether states can punish people who apply for or get jobs by failing to reveal their true purpose," University of Virginia School of Law professor Frederick Schauer told me via email. "Similarly, the First Amendment has very little to do, under current law, with a state's attempts to protect the premises or privacy of a busin...
Robert O’Neill, a free speech expert and former University of Virginia president and law professor, said in an email that calling a fellow professor a racist was certainly “uncollegial.” But a single offensive epithet would be “insufficient to trigger a major sanction even if targeted to a colleague and not germane to the subject matter.” He continued: “If the concern, by contrast, was inadequate performance amounting (or falling to the level of) ‘demonstrated lack of fitness’ [which could be grounds for termination, according to AAUP] in the cla...
Book review: “The Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine,” by Dave DeWitt.
(By Gerald Warburg, professor of public policy) Congress is broken. Veteran legislators of all political persuasions are fleeing what one recently termed an "obnoxious" body, polling below 10 percent. The list of unresolved public policy challenges grows daily, from entitlement reform, infrastructure investments and debt reduction to climate change, privacy protections and immigration reform. Sound remedies exist. Compromise and consensus are attainable.
But it's not a prospect that's so far-fetched, says Larry Sabato, professor of politics and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Writing in Politico magazine this month, Sabato suggested Portman may be exactly the kind of candidate the GOP needs, noting his leap into the national headlines with his announcement that his son Will, an undergraduate student at Yale, was gay – and that he also supported same-sex marriage.
The fight is on, but experts say Democrats are in for an uphill battle. “Congressman Hurt has a strong advantage,” Larry J. Sabato, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Tuesday. But, he added, “In politics, nothing’s impossible and no one’s invulnerable.”
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology) The portrait painted of Millennial Americans by the Pew Research Center in its new report Millennials in Adulthood is not rosy. Sure, compared with earlier generations, Millennials (now aged 18 to 33) are exceptionally tolerant, optimistic about their economic future, and connected to friends, family, and colleagues on the "new platforms of the digital era" - from Facebook to Twitter. But this report makes clear that Millennial ties to the core human institutions that have sustained the American experiment - work, marriage, and civil so...
(With audio) A Virginia lawyer is on his way to the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the right of a man to grow a beard. Seven states will be watching that case closely. Gregory Holt is serving a life sentence for burglary and domestic battery in Arkansas – one of seven states that bar prisoners from growing a beard. His lawyer says that’s a problem, because Holt is a Muslim. Douglas Laycock, a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Virginia, says Holt got all the way to the Supreme Court without the help of a lawyer. But now he needs a professional, and this ...
"Democrats will probably hold maybe one or two more governorships next year than they do now, but I wouldn't expect there to be a huge turnover, or for the Democrats to hold more governorships than Republicans next year," says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the University of Virginia's political website Crystal Ball.
And there’s this from Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics: “On the whole, it is a good thing to reach out, entertain the legislators, get to know them,” he says. “Ask Mark Warner; he used the mansion well to get what he wanted from the General Assembly. But positions and party lines have hardened since then. McAuliffe is doing what Obama has been criticized for not doing, yet I doubt it yields very many additional votes on the big-ticket items.”
We’re thrilled to announce the appointment of three new Deputy Editors-in-Chief for PLOS Computational Biology: Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Jason Papin and Olaf Sporns. … Jason Papin is on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.