Michigan's Republican primary is more than 18 months away, and political analysts said conservative outrage at Meijer might subside by then. An Iraq veteran and the grandson of retailer Fredrik Meijer, Peter Meijer has widespread name recognition in his district and has money to help fend off a challenge. "If there were an election next week, Peter Meijer might lose a primary, but that’s not what's happening here," said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
"We've depended on a combination of legal requirements and norms to prevent conflicts of interest and self-dealing," said Deborah Hellman, a UVA law professor who studies political corruption. "Once norms get broken, it's hard to put them back together again."
Using the 14th Amendment to remove a president would put Congress in murky waters, both legally and politically. UVA’s Philip Zelikow recently wrote in Lawfare that “Congress can apply the 14th Amendment disqualification to Trump, by majority vote.”
While masks mandates are in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they’re doing a good job of preventing the spread of other common illnesses. Dr. Bill Petri with UVA Health says that Virginia is experiencing extremely low cases of Influenza this year. He says masks are a big reason for that drop-off.
For more than 200 years, Haiti’s independence story has inspired African-Americans, from Frederick Douglas to Langston Hughes and the Rev. Al Sharpton. “The Haitian Revolution is the original Black Lives Matter movement,” Marlene Daut, a UVA African diaspora studies professor, said. “This past summer when we saw Black Lives Matter protests, this was the display of the revolutionary movement coming alive,” Daut said.
The Tuskegee Study, in which doctors purposefully neglected to provide appropriate treatment to Black men in order to study the long-term effects of syphilis, lasted from 1932 to 1972 and gave Black Americans ample cause to distrust medical researchers. “To this day it is likely why a large portion of our unrepresented minorities are going to have a fear of wanting to enroll in trials,” says Siddhartha S. Angadi, a UVA cardiovascular-exercise physiologist.
“When we think about health and health care, I think many of us envision a clinic or a hospital. You think about interacting with a nurse or a doctor,” said Dr. Irène Mathieu, pediatrician and public health researcher at UVA Children’s. “What many people don’t realize is that the vast majority of what determines happens outside of those settings, long before we even interact with the health care system.”
As the world struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be difficult to imagine how humans a thousand years ago would relate to a deadly virus neither seen nor imagined. Actually, it’s not hard. Their method is on TV, movie screens and a plethora of paperback books and pulp novels. It’s the vampire. “We really don’t know how old the vampire is, but the earliest mention comes from an old Russian text from about 1047 AD,” said Stanley Stepanic, a UVA associate professor of Slavic languages and literature and an authority on vampires. “That’s the first time ‘vampire’ appears in writing, but we ...
Kimberly Whitler, an assistant professor of marketing at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said she is not surprised that some brands are choosing not to run Super Bowl commercials this year. Whitler believes the events of 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic and presidential election, have created an abnormal degree of uncertainty this year – not just in terms of finances, but also in terms of messaging.
From celebrities who invest in bitcoin, to a highly-engaged bitcoin community on Twitter, TikTok and Reddit, social media feeds into bitcoin’s popularity. “Suddenly, there’s like a new way to see, finance and to have an identity of yourself as an actor in like the financial space,” said Lana Swartz, UVA assistant professor of media studies and author of “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media.”
In addition to the biannual Thinkers50 list of the world's top 50 thought leaders in the world of management, the Radar list, published annually in January, provides an eclectic selection of 30 people working on groundbreaking ideas that reflect the current world in which we live and guide solutions we will benefit from in 2021 and beyond. … Laura Morgan Roberts is a professor at the UVA’s Darden School of Business, whose work focuses on maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities. Her work also emphasizes the importance of providing more meaningful opportunities ...
(Commentary by Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History) Time has come for Congress to contemplate how to hold Donald Trump accountable for his efforts to overthrow the election and incite an insurrection.
(Commentary by Elizabeth R. Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History) In his illuminating and accessible new book, James Oakes, an acclaimed historian of emancipation, offers us a “third Lincoln”: neither the mythic Great Emancipator nor a flawed reluctant emancipator, but instead a committed proponent of antislavery constitutionalism.
“A stranger arrives in an unknown city after a long voyage.” So begins Three Rings, a slender, dense book that was originally constructed as a series of three public lectures titled “A Digression: Narrative Afterlives of The Odyssey,” which Daniel Mendelsohn delivered at the University of Virginia in 2019.
A UVA Health briefing was held Friday morning to provide updates on COVID-19 vaccine efforts. Wendy Horton, UVA Medical Center’s chief executive officer; Dr. Reid Adams, UVA Health’s chief medical officer; and Dr. Costi Sifri, UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology, spoke at the briefing. The current plan is to vaccinate or schedule to vaccinate 8,000 people who are not UVA Health employees but are affiliated.
On Friday, Dr. Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology for UVA, said the medical center had received 25,075 and given out 17,321 doses, which includes the second shot. About 22,693 first doses have been scheduled or administered.
"Although not a landslide shift comparable to election swings in the twentieth century, McKinley's victory ended the pattern of close popular margins that had characterized elections since the Civil War," notes a recap of the 1896 election posted by UVA’s Miller Center. "McKinley received 7,218,491 votes (51.7%) to Bryan's 6,356,734 votes (45.5%) – a gain for the Republicans of 114,000 votes over their total in 1896."
Criminal cases against companies declined from 1,690 during the administration of George W Bush to 1,418 under Barack Obama to about 383 during the four years of the Trump administration, according to a white-collar crime database from the law schools at Duke University and UVA. This figure will grow, however, as the final cases are added to the database, which is up to date only until autumn of last year.
(Commentary) Author Rodney Smolla introduces us to Leslie Kendrick, who is Jewish and a distinguished First Amendment scholar. She is the vice dean and a professor of law at the UVA School of Law. According to Smolla, in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rallies in her hometown, Kendrick took a hard look at her traditional defense of free speech. Skeptical of the marketplace rationale, she questioned whether suppressing or protecting extremist speech strengthens or weakens such speech. Ultimately, Kendrick “comes down in favor of the modern protection of hate speech, as better than any plau...
With the coronavirus pandemic creating unique challenges for Virginia’s families, educational leaders across the commonwealth want to learn about the impact on young children’s care and education. The Virginia Department of Education, the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, and the University of Virginia have created a survey for Virginia families with newborns through kindergarten students in their household.