During the recent inauguration of the commonwealth’s first woman governor, former Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin turned his back on his successor, Abigail Spanberger, and walked up stairs that led out of the ceremony.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has emerged as a clarion voice for American democracy in turbulent times.

There’s something uncomfortably familiar about President Donald Trump’s jackboot approach to the immigration debate.

Don Lemon knew he was going to be arrested.

How about this weather?

The name Kanye West would have been at the top of a list of people I didn’t plan to write about this year, if I had time to keep track of things like that.

Black America is often told that foreign policy is distant, something for diplomats, generals and elites in places most of us will never see.

What is happening in Minnesota should be the kind of wake-up call for Americans who still fail to recognize the truth about this administration and need to understand the grave situation we face as a nation.

When Claudette Colvin died this month, too many Americans learned her name for the first time in an obituary.

Americans are paying more for less when it comes to health care. One in five patients now waits more than two months to see a primary care doctor or specialist.

One thing I’ve never been accused of in my years as a journalist is being an expert on fashion.

Americans of all walks of life are witnessing continuing political and cultural shifts in our nation.

In a nation as diverse as ours, immigration enforcement inevitably tests whether equal protection means what it says.

I’ve watched every Virginia governor’s inauguration for the past 30 years.

Last week, we published a photo of the entryway to the former Richmond Times-Dispatch headquarters, calling attention to the impression left on the building where the letters of the former daily newspaper once proclaimed its existence.