Tag: Congress

by Bert Berlin Having recently fought a war to free themselves from King George III, the drafters of the U.S. Constitution were quite aware that...

by Lowell Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, January 4. ‘They can do what they want’: Trump’s...

A brand-new poll by the the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University is out today. Here are the key...

It has been a dispiriting time the past couple of weeks-- dispiriting because of the one-sidedness of the battle. As the Republicans are making themselves...

by Lowell Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, December 2. Senate passes Republican tax plan (And with...

by Tom Hicks, Democratic candidate for Congress in VA-01 Recent sexual harassment claims against members of Congress have again revealed the failure of this body...

A week with a reckless president beating the drums of (nuclear?) war. First he publicly tells his Secretary of State that "he is wasting...

It looks to me increasingly likely that the Trump presidency will end with his removal from office through impeachment (despite the effort of the...

There's been much talk about how the press fell all over itself to laud Trump for reading off a teleprompter words -- written by...

This past Sunday, January 15th, hundreds of energized Democrats rallied together at the Bell Tower in Richmond to defend the Affordable Care Act. With...