If the system were color-blind, the nation’s appellate courts would look like roughly like the general population. They do not.

Fixing the home-detention framework would go a long way to solving problems in the state's criminal justice system.

We can keep our communities safe and uphold the dignity of our children by looking to the root causes of crime and responding accordingly.

It’s going to take a village to find a way to meet in the middle, to speak reasonably to one another and find places of commonality and agreement.

Elected officials saying on the record what they really think can be dangerous.

There’s a different strand of theater underway right now that we haven’t seen before — or at least not for decades — and it comes in two varieties.

Local and state officials should talk at a table of unity, not one of accusation and autocratic action.

The Smithsonian is trying to identify locations for a National Museum of the American Latino and a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. Where will they go?

Rural Virginians' opinions are overshadowed by profit-driven companies that seek to build on their untouched land.

The death of Officer Jeffrey Smith is a wake-up call that needs to be heeded.

The venomous tit-for-tat in Richmond was set in motion by the governor's extremist choice for the state's top environmental job.

Metro is facing a financial cliff and steep service cuts once federal relief funding runs out, as it will. The Washington area's economy depends on a solution.

Adoption of such services almost certainly violates the spirit, if not the letter, of open records laws.

Legislation in Richmond would hand the Commanders owner, embroiled in workplace misconduct investigations, a fat state subsidy.

This week's Free for All letters.

This week's Free for All letters.

This week's Free for All letters.

This week's Free for All letters.

This week's Free for All letters.