Opinion Letters

Dear Editor, Annual massive federal deficits are not an income problem.

Dear Editor, As a long-time patron of our local library, I wanted to share some thoughts about the importance of public libraries, and the need to modernize…

For more than a decade, the Electronic Registration Information Center has helped Virginia and other member states maintain accurate voter rolls and facilitate…

It was either the best deal that could have been reached given the political makeup of the House, Senate and White House, or it was a bad deal that might have …

Few commentators give South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott much hope of overtaking Donald Trump in the race for the Republican nomination for president -- or of even …

Disastrous. There's no other word to describe the state of civic education in the U.S. In the wake of the latest test results released by the National Assessme…

There is a conundrum at the center of American politics that is unresolvable on its face: according to Gallup, 40 percent of registered voters do not regard th…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' much-anticipated 2024 presidential campaign is finally here. DeSantis is, by any empirical metric or otherwise reasonable estimation…

Dear Editor, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer and the rest of the MAGA faction that controls the Republican Party in the U.S. House of Representatives extracted a ra…

Dear Editor, We are being groomed as sheep to the slaughter.

Two functional political parties shouldn't be too much to ask of American democracy. At the moment, though, one of them is toying with outright disaster.

When you're the governor of a state, you're a big, important deal.

This was the week when Americans were astonished to discover that the most famous Democratic elder statesman and Republican rookie in our national politics hav…

"Where there's a will, there's a way" is an old and familiar quotation, often attributed to Albert Einstein, who was on to something almost as significant as E…

In recent years, there has been a surge in violent crime in our nation's capital, and unfortunately, our college students have not been spared.