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June 27, 2025
Siva Vaidhyanathan
UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway
Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.
July 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Republicans’ Latest Front in the Culture War: A Virginia Politics Professor
“It’s about intimidation—and not of me,” says the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato
December 9, 2014
Naomi Shavin
Our Memories Can't Be Trusted
The most troubling lesson from UVA, Ferguson, and Serial
December 3, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story Has Problems, But Don't Let Them Obscure the Appalling Truth
November 26, 2014
Rebecca Traister
This Is What Power Looks Like
The past few weeks have been a depressing lesson in how to get away with bad behavior
November 25, 2014
Judith Shulevitz
Where UVA Went Wrong: Students Need to See Rape as a Felony, Not Just a Campus Infraction
August 23, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Why UPS Spouses Shouldn't Be (Too) Mad at Obamacare
November 6, 2012
Perry Stein
Virginia's Sneaky Voter ID Raises Few Alarms
October 1, 2012
Marc Tracy
A Blog Hopes Its New Online Course Will Be More Than Marginal
July 3, 2012
Rochelle Gurstein
In Praise of Ruins: What the Fallen Grandeur of Ancient Rome Teaches Us
June 21, 2012
Kevin Carey
The Decline and Fall of a Public University: How Status Anxiety Doomed the University of Virginia
June 18, 2012
Alec MacGillis
First We'll Take Manhattan, Then We'll Take Charlottesville (Updated)
February 6, 2012
Perry Stein
The Coming Radicalization of Virginia’s Politics
November 24, 2011
The Editors
Out of Sight
August 25, 2011
Kevin Carey
Rick Perry Is a Higher-Education Visionary. Seriously.
March 17, 2011
Joshua Hersh
Cuccinelli’s War
March 10, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
The Conservative Assault on Medicaid
March 8, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
Why GOP Governors Should Love Medicaid
December 31, 2010
Ann Marlowe
DISPATCH: The Mysterious Evolution of Kandahar—And Its Insurgency
December 20, 2010
Jonathan Chait
How The Religious Right Lost

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