Ignorant. Arrogant. Insulting. Racist. Sexist. Misogynistic. Anti-black. Anti-Latino. Anti-immigrant. Anti-Muslim. Xenophobic.

We declare Virginia’s own Tim Kaine the winner of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate. Sen. Kaine, a former Richmond mayor, governor and now U.S. senator, typically is easygoing, with a personality that optimizes the good, rather than focusing on the …

Almost each day brings a new report of the death of another African-American at the hands of police.

We are glad the sad, sordid saga of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, is finally over. On Sept. 8, federal prosecutors announced they would not seek a second trial against the pair on corruption charges after the …

When it comes to African-Americans and other people of color in this country, it is going to get worse before it gets better.

We remember the chilling headline in a New York newspaper when the Big Apple was facing bankruptcy.

The new school year has started. And that truly is a cause for celebration.

What happens if the Democrats win the presidential election in November, and Tim Kaine, who represents Virginia in the U.S. Senate, becomes the vice president? Who would fill his vacant Senate seat?

We are sick of Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump about now. His 11th-hour attempts to court “the blacks,” as he has referred to us on several occasions, show us what we already know — that he is both ignorant …

Say the name Jack Gravely, and people even in the farthest corners of Virginia are likely to know who you’re talking about. Mr. Gravely, the un-bought, un-bossed two-time head of the state NAACP, died Monday, bringing to a close a …

The latest reason Republican Donald J. Trump has shown us that he is unfit to be president: At a campaign rally Tuesday in North Carolina, the filterless Mr. Trump suggested that gun owners could stop Democrat Hillary Clinton from appointing …

This weekend, Richmond will be filled with people from across the state and the nation who are taking a positive stand for raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Every four years, the pinnacle of American democracy is reached with the presidential election. That’s when every eligible voter age 18 and older, from every town, city and hamlet across the nation, can listen to the candidates, examine their differing …

In politics, nothing and no one are perfect. But we give high marks to the newly minted Democratic team running for president and vice president in 2016. Hillary Clinton, the nation’s former first lady who has established herself as a …

First it was Elvis taking our music. Then it was Bo Derek co-opting our cornrows.