The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. But even they are resisting new developments. And they have specific wishes for how to regulate them.
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Energy is meant to improve people’s lives. Often cost prevents residents from making the most of that opportunity, so they cut back on energy use to be able to pay the bills.
More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether.
Many steps that are good for clean energy also dovetail with federal priorities, from affordable housing to data centers and rural development.
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
For Madison, religious freedom was not a tool for political domination. Rather, he saw it as a constitutional safeguard for liberty and democracy.
Judges and federal regulators will make significant decisions over Americans’ reproductive rights.
For residents who can’t afford to move, rising lot rents can mean losing everything.
From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that received few protections.
The Supreme Court has ruled that executing the innocent does not violate the Constitution, but some states allow people convicted of crimes to bring actual innocence claims.
There’s an impulse by universities and media to inaccurately document hip-hop’s history. The genre is, in part, a response to that imprecision, a professor of hip-hop writes.
Protesters toppled and damaged a statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, in 2020. It is now displayed at a museum just as they left it: prone and paint-splattered, with a toilet-paper noose.
30 years ago, the company had grand plans to build a history-themed park in Virginia. But efforts to ‘Disneyfy’ American history met staunch opposition, even in the halcyon 1990s.
The new constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in Ohio − as well as other wins for Democrats − shows the importance of ballot initiatives and focusing on abortion in elections.
While it’s widely believed that Howard University came to be known as “The Mecca” in the 1960s, new evidence shows the nickname is more than half a century older than that.
At least six people have been killed in an attack at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. It happened amid a surge of mass shootings in the US.
The communion between Native Americans and the Pilgrims makes for a compelling narrative. But it masks the suspicions and brewing violence that were far more representative of the era.
Escaping slavery did not result in unconditional freedom.
There’s a bittersweet history to chocolate in America. At one plantation museum in Virginia, the story of enslaved chocolatier Caesar shows the oppression that lay behind the elite’s culinary treat.
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Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic, University of Virginia
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