For five months, we've known that to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, we need to stay at home. But how can Virginians stay at home if those homes are taken away? With no end to the crisis in sight, thousands of Virginia citizens are facing evictions from their homes. What can lawmakers do about the crisis, and why are Virginia tenants so uniquely vulnerable?

This week, we spoke with Ned Oliver, a reporter at the Virginia Mercury, and Christie Marra, an advocate at the Virginia Poverty Law Center (804-782-9430), about the recent eviction moratorium and the history of Virginia's unequal tenant laws.

“The Virginia Way” is an old-fashioned ideal here in the Commonwealth--the notion that our public servants have so much integrity that we don’t need laws to regulate money that goes into the political process. As a result, we have almost no campaign finance regulation--a fact that's been exploited by aristocrats and corporations for decades, if not centuries.

This week, we sat down with state Delegate Sally Hudson and author Jeff Thomas ("The Virginia Way: Democracy and Power after 2016") to discuss the history of the Virginia Way and how the culture of Richmond might be changing in a new era.

For the last six years, Dominion Energy has been working to build a natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Hampton Roads. But just a few weeks after winning a Supreme Court case to regain permits for the project, the pipeline was cancelled--leaving Dominion is out more than three billion dollars already spent. This week, we sat down with Richmond-based journalist Peter Galuszka and New York Times Renewable Energy Correspondent Ivan Penn to understand why Dominion pulled the plug--and what it might mean for the future of energy in Virginia.

Facebook ads, Twitter bots, TikTok teens—over the last decade, social media has played an increasingly important role in our social and political discourse. This week, we continue our conversation with UVA Media Studies Professor Siva Vaidyanathan to discuss the way social media algorithms can unintentionally help organize radical groups and why social media platforms don’t bear the same liability for content as other publishers—namely, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. After that, journalist Brad Kutner takes us into a recent defamation suit in Virginia involving California Congressman Devin Nunes, Section 230, and a Twitter account for a fake cow.

It’s been a tumultuous month across the country and across the world—that’s no secret. Today, we’re talking to Chelsea Higgs Wise, a longtime activist in the Richmond community, about recent protests in the state capital; Black Lives Matter, the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, and the work that still needs to be done to achieve equality in Virginia. After that, UVA Professor Siva Vaidyanathan discusses the way that social media alters—and damages—our political discourse.

Both Virginia's 7th and 2nd U.S. House districts voted for Trump in 2016. But then two years later, they flipped in the midterm elections. Democrats Abigail Spanberger in the 7th and Elaine Luria in the 2nd both won by razor thin margins. This fall, these first-term lawmakers will face their yet-to-be-determined Republican challengers. Today, we’re talking about their potential opponents, their chances of re-election, and the consequences of holding onto the seat.

With all the news of the pandemic going on, it's easy to forget that we have elections coming up quite soon.

This episode looks at Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, a huge, gerrymandered region that stretches from the North Carolina border to the Washington, DC exurbs.

Freshman lawmaker Denver Riggleman is the Republican incumbent. But he’s facing a challenge from far right candidate Bob Good. And all this is happening amidst a global pandemic.

Well, we’re in May now. It’s been a month and a half since everything started closing and authorities urged social distancing.

But work hasn’t stopped for people working in essential industries – health care, of course. But also grocery stores, fire and police services, construction, buses, meat packing, and more.

That doesn’t mean the work is always safe. Around the country, there have been more than 150 labor actions like walk-outs or strikes. Protesting conditions that the workers feel are unsafe. That includes several labor actions here in Virginia – from workers in Naval Yards in Hampton Roads to poultry plants in the Shenandoah Valley.

The General Assembly has arrived back in Richmond for a highly unusual special session.

The task at hand: figure out Virginia’s state budget during this pandemic related economic seizure. Also: sort out the bills that Governor Ralph Northam sent back for revisions.

What now for Virginia's budget and minimum wage hikes?

In this episode of Bold Dominion: the economy has run full speed into a brick wall. And that wall is called COVID-19.

We’re still in a public health crisis that has yet to peak. And while we’re all practicing social distancing as best we can, this pandemic has created an immediate economic crisis no matter how you slice it.

We talk with Virginia journalist Peter Galuszka and UVA Professor David Leblang about how this pandemic will pan out in Virginia’s economy.