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  • George Allen raises money for Jim Webb

    Since the Virginia senator said "macaca," the polls -- and the cash - have moved in his Democratic challenger's direction.
    By Michael Scherer August 23, 2006

  • Stepping in "macaca"

    With his Confederate-flag-draped past, Sen. George Allen is in trouble for using a term for monkeys -- and a racial slur elsewhere in the world -- to ridicule a dark-skinned man at a campaign rally.
    By Michael Scherer August 16, 2006

  • War hero vs. faux cowboy

    War hero Jim Webb has the risumi to take a Senate seat away from presidential hopeful George Allen. But the cowboy-boot-wearing Allen will use every trick in the Rove playbook.
    By Michael Scherer July 17, 2006

  • All women should have babies! Except you! (Take 2)

    Virginia wing nut mounts wacko attack on unmarried infertile women.
    By Lynn Harris January 5, 2006

  • In the off-off-year election, Bush is on the ballot, and not

    The president makes a last-minute stop in Virginia: If you're going to get pinned with the result, you may as well try to win.
    By Tim Grieve November 8, 2005

  • "Isn't she a little young?"

    A new public service ad campaign in Virginia uses billboards and bar coasters to remind men that sex with a minor is against the law. But will it work?
    By Corrie Pikul July 26, 2004

  • The patriot

    Armed Services chairman John Warner is determined to get to the bottom of the Abu Ghraib scandal -- even if it costs George W. Bush the election.
    By Mary Jacoby June 2, 2004

  • Which Richmond, Va., did Burt Wolf visit?

    Are his descriptions "flat incorrect" or "right-on"?
    By June 13, 2000

  • From famine to feast

    Virginia's capital is rich with America's history.
    By Burt Wolf June 7, 2000

  • Impeachment's little elves

    How a pack of conservative lawyers used Matt Drudge and Clinton-accuser Kathleen Willey to scuttle a deal in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
    By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons March 4, 2000

  • Return to go

    They made a good run, and it's been fun, but McCain and Bradley are doomed. The voters, in turn, are doomed to Bush and Gore in the fall.
    Compiled by Salon staff March 1, 2000

  • No upset.com this time

    Northern Virginia's newly wealthy tech belt didn't provide the bounce McCain needed to overcome Bush's entrenched power in Tuesday's primary.
    By Alicia Montgomery March 1, 2000

  • Bush strikes back

    McCain's insurgency may play well with the Yankees, but down here south of the Mason-Dixon line, it's solid Bush country.
    By Daryl Lindsey March 1, 2000

  • Taking on the untouchables

    John McCain's decision to attack the leaders of the religious right is refreshing because Republican leaders have too long been cowed into submission by these bigots.
    By Joe Conason February 29, 2000

  • Bush has a Tuesday sweep

    The front-runner wins the trifecta and regains the momentum from McCain -- again.
    By Anthony York February 29, 2000

  • The good, the bad and the Dubya

    In front of a group of potential voters on AOL's stage, George W. Bush is a happy moderate. But standing before reporters he's transformed into an angry attack dog.
    By Alicia Montgomery February 26, 2000

  • Primary tip sheet

    Here's how to handicap the runners in the coming month of Republican contests.
    By Anthony York February 25, 2000

  • Thief gets caught in his own tracks

    Virginian robbed while shoveling snow.
    By J.A. Getzlaff February 8, 2000

  • Dead senator running?

    LBJ's son-in-law Chuck Robb once seemed to be on the fast track to the White House, but these days, he's considered the senator most likely to lose his job in 2000.
    By Jake Tapper November 17, 1999

  • Anti-wankers want to ban book in Virginia high schools

    Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War" talks about masturbation, but one self-satisfied student wants it pulled.
    By Hank Hyena November 9, 1999

  • The Silicon Dominion skews right

    Virginia's booming high-tech industry helps the GOP wrest control of the state government away from the Democrats for the first time in history.
    By Alicia Montgomery November 3, 1999

  • The odd couple

    Strange things went down this weekend when Christian firebrand Jerry Falwell and gay religious leader Mel White brought their followers together for a love fest.
    By Deb Schwartz October 25, 1999

  • Sexpert Bright sues Virginia!

    Last July, a Virginia law began banning any Internet content it deemed "harmful for juveniles." Now free-speechers and cybersex gurus are fighting back.
    By Hank Hyena October 25, 1999
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