NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous joins the Politics Hour crew to chat about what he feels is at stake in this year's elections and how they are conducted.

There's a lot of misunderstanding about how Virginia's new voter ID law will affect residents, but according to officials, nothing much will have changed for the vast majority of voters.

Plans for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in the next month are slowly coming out, and already it appears as though both Virginia and Maryland will have familiar faces amongst the prominent speakers.

The campaign trail cuts through The Politics Hour. Tim Kaine, former Virginia governor and current Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, joins the crew in the studio.

Arlington voters have four bond issues on the ballot this November, and the prospects for all of them look good, since voters haven't turned down a bond measure since 1979.

Tuition increases in Virginia will be able 4.6 percent for the commonwealth's public universities, a far cry from the double-digit tuition increases in the last decade.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) sits down with Tom Sherwood and Kojo.

William A. White, former head of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, has been ordered by a judge to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after attempting to flee the country.

In the wake of two deadly shooting in the last several weeks, many lawmakers on Capitol Hill are refusing to even have the conversation about changing U.S. gun laws.

The race for the House of Delegates seat in Virginia' 45th district is heating up — Republican Tim McGhee and Democrat Rob Krupicka are a study in contrasts.