Higher education must evolve alongside employers if we expect working adults to view advancement as truly accessible.
Opinion
Here’s how you can put together an all-Virginia menu for Thanksgiving
You can find most of the ingredients for a classic Thanksgiving feast grown in Virginia. Here’s what that tells us about the state of Virginia agriculture.
From all of us at Cardinal, to all of you: Thank you
Thousands of you have stepped up over the past four years to support Cardinal’s mission to give voice to the people of our communities. We’re preparing for a transformative 2026, thanks to you.
The Mayflower Compact and the myths of Thanksgiving
We have a national holiday that never originated among the group with whom it is associated, to commemorate a founding based upon principles of religious freedom that did not exist and sealed by a compact that had nothing to do with democratic origins with which it is linked.
Should colleges sell their football teams to private investors? That day may be coming.
College football is big business, but it looks to students to subsidize it. What if it were even bigger business? Private equity funds are looking to take a stake in the action.
McNamara: Here we go again. The budget crisis that isn’t
The Virginia budget is as healthy as it has ever been. Despite nearly $9 billion in tax relief over the past four years, our revenues have grown 28%.
Behind Virginia Democrats’ blue wave of votes was a green wave of money. Some challengers outspent Republican incumbents 14-1 on television.
House Democrats outraised 2.5 times more money than Republicans and wound up outspending them 14 times over on broadcast television in some key races.
Spanberger and senators get a dour economic forecast: Virginia is trading high-wage jobs for lower-wage ones
The governor-elect and Senate Finance Committee also heard about how artificial intelligence is eliminating many entry-level jobs and making it harder for young adults to enter the workforce.
5 ways to measure whether the Spanberger administration succeeds
Here are five things the incoming governor could do that would constitute “winning.”
Clinic manager to Congress: Rein in federal program raising health care costs for Virginians
The little-known 340B program was established with the intention of improving access to treatments for low-income and uninsured communities. However, the program is broken and needs reform.

