The country’s political divisions are as deep as ever. Political analysts don’t see that changing anytime soon, especially with former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney saying he expects his former boss will remain a very vocale political player and on the short list to run again in 2024. “The geographic sort of metro-rural is changing our politics, and defining the actual nature of our polarization,” says Guian McKee, an associate professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “If we hope to find a better politics in the aftermath of this horrible year...
Michael Gilbert, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in election law and legislation, says lawsuits over elections aren’t uncommon. This year’s reliance on mail-in voting could see the number of suits skyrocket.
With only a few states left to report election results two days after the election, the University of Virginia Center for Politics says people need to continue watching the states in play.
He said for now, he doesn't have any immediate plans. He will work shifts at the University of Virginia Medical Center and he teaches graduate-level classes at UVA focusing on health reform and the social detriments of health.
(Video) Larry Sabato, University of Virginia Center for Politics director joins Shep Smith to provide his analysis on swing states and why we shouldn’t be driven by the polls.
Legal experts have rejected the Trump campaign’s allegations that widespread voter fraud has taken place. “There is no reason I have seen anywhere to believe that there’s a problem here,” Michael Gilbert, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday. “It’s just vote-counting takes time, and they’re counting the votes. I see no evidence of fraud. I see zero evidence whatsoever of an election being stolen.”
While the ideological cleavage between urban and rural parts of the U.S. continues to grow, progressive candidates at the local level had a strong showing Tuesday. There is a “dramatic progressive turn” taking place on the local level, said Richard Schragger, a University of Virginia professor and author of “City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age.”
“Except for the Civil War, I don’t think we’ve lived through any time as perilous as this in terms of the divisions,” said historian Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi, assistant professor and research director for Public and Policy Program at UVA’s Miller Center) Despite an extremely tight race and some expectations that Joe Biden would gain ground among Hispanics in Florida (in a similar fashion to Hillary Clinton’s 62% Latino support in 2016), the state went to Donald Trump.
An appeal filed on behalf of two University of Virginia students who claim a federal law restricting sales of handguns to people younger than 21 is unconstitutional appeared to gain some support in a recent hearing in front of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
MacArthur “Genius” and Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond, who wrote Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, will be speaking at the Virginia Festival of the Book virtually, according to a news release. The virtual event is free and will be on Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. Desmond will talk with Kevin McDonald, the University of Virginia's vice president for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Partnerships, about his book and work on housing access and affordability. He will also discuss income and housing insecurity across the country.
(Commentary) Charles Mathewes, professor of religion and politics at the University of Virginia, observed in an unpublished paper he shared with me that evangelicals had formed a vibrant subculture before they formed a voting bloc. Relying on their own institutions — “places like Wheaton College, Calvin College, Fuller Seminary and media forces like Christianity Today,” Dr. Mathewes writes — they had “Christianized their everyday life.” That they were organized and cohesive made them an especially attractive political asset.
(By Dr. Cate Varney, clinical physician, UVA Health) The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that obesity is no longer a disease that harms just in the long run but one that can have acutely devastating effects.
"Trump has so deeply alienated suburban areas, and particularly suburban women, that it is going to be difficult for any hard right or Trump supporting candidate to get elected in any district that is suburban or urban," said political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Jim Detert and Bobby Parmar at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business developed the interpersonal skills lab to immerse individuals, paired with actors, in realistic difficult decision-making scenarios and then provide objective feedback through video and physiologic data.
While long-acting stimulants can improve the driving safety of adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), they could wear off in the evening when severe vehicular collisions are more common. A team led by Daniel J. Cox, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, investigated the non-inferiority of 2 long-acting psychostimulants on driving performance in young adults with ADHD.
On July 15, Charlottesville Tomorrow asked for planning documents and emails related to Albemarle County Public Schools’ reopening plans. The school division responded simply that county ordinance exempted it from meeting the state’s deadline. After two weeks with no other response, Charlottesville Tomorrow partnered with the University of Virginia’s First Amendment Clinic to fight for the records.
University of Virginia students living on and off Grounds will get a final COVID-19 test before they leave school to return home for the holidays and those who test positive will be asked to quarantine before leaving, officials announced Thursday.
Since its launch in August 2019, Houston-based Accel Lifestyle has become the darling of the sweat set, perhaps on a fashion trajectory to emulate Lululemon. Operative word here is “sweat,” as it was Megan Eddings’ husband’s “stinky” T-shirts that led the UVA alumna on a remarkable journey creating an anti-bacterial fabric for workout apparel that has been embraced by groups as diverse as Tootsies’ clientele and the U.S. military.