Robert McCartney

On Tuesday, Amazon named Long Island City, New York, and Arlington, Virginia as the cite of their HQ2 locations. So what are the terms of the deal?

Virginia is one of the prized swing states in this year’s presidential election. Washington Post Local Columnist Robert McCartney discusses the major issues that the state’s voters care about this year, on both the national level and in the tight Senate race there. Plus, we’ll look at the impact of economic shifts in Virginia over the last four years.

Despite President Obama’s repeated appearances on the campaign trail, Democrats lost both of the gubernatorial elections up for grabs yesterday. Does this mean that the president has ...

Long Island
Lawrence Levy, executive director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University and a former columnist for Newsday, talks about the Nassau County Executive race.

Not-So-Sweet Virginia
It's not just New Jersey that has a big gubernatorial election today. Robert McCartney, metropolitan ...

Tomorrow will bring three off-year elections that have garnered national attention: New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors, and a special election – which grew more special over...