TNR editor Michael Tomasky talks with Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher about Virginia, race, and whether Democrats can change the dynamic heading into 2022.

In Virginia, Glenn Youngkin kept his distance from the former president and won. It won’t be so easy for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections.

The White House worried about backlash from the anti-vaxxer minority. As Virginia’s gubernatorial election shows, it should have worried about the Covid-weary majority.

Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin connected with parents, and Terry McAuliffe did not. This, not critical race theory, is what Democrats need to reflect on.

Lawmakers are pressing forward with two massive bills that constitute Biden’s agenda, but Tuesday night’s results have laid the party’s midterm weaknesses bare.

The problem is low Democratic voter enthusiasm. Here are the things the president can do to solve it.

Trump’s Big Lie is the one thing that keeps Republicans together.

If Glenn Youngkin wins the governor’s race, will it really be such a disaster for Democrats? In a word, yes.

Republican attorney general candidate Jason Miyares, who downplays his party affiliation, took $2.6 million from a group that made robocalls that helped incite the Capitol mob.

The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia’s closing message gives the “critical race theory” game away.

With the Virginia governor’s race tightening, the former president headlined a Terry McAuliffe rally in an effort to Trumpify GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin.

Many fear that if Terry McAuliffe loses, doom for Democrats is imminent. Don’t be so sure.

Glenn Youngkin is running a tight race for Virginia governor against Democrat Terry McAuliffe by trying to be both a conventional conservative and a winking Trumpist.

He was a successful governor. It’s a blue state now (so we say). So why is the Virginia gubernatorial race so close?

The right bought race and trans hysteria to school board meetings in once scarlet-red Loudoun County. But guess which side won?

“It’s about intimidation—and not of me,” says the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato

Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.

In Portsmouth, Virginia, cops have been systematically using their state power to tyrannize political enemies.

The rural, Native, Black, and Latinx communities protesting the controversial pipeline deserve clean, safe places to call home.

Underreporting in communities of color has left us with a distorted view of the pandemic’s true reach—and the lessons we’ll need for next time.