--- title: Tim Kaine | TIME description: Tim Kaine is a Democratic U.S. senator representing Virginia. canonical: https://time.com/author/sen-tim-kaine/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/sen-tim-kaine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sen. Tim Kaine ## Sen. Tim Kaine Tim Kaine is a Democratic U.S. senator representing Virginia. ## Sen. Tim Kaine *  Apr 9, 2026 ### [Leaving NATO Would Be National Self-Sabotage](https://time.com/article/2026/04/08/leaving-nato-would-be-national-self-sabotage/) Trump’s undermining of the bipartisan pro-NATO consensus makes America and the world less safe, writ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 26, 2018 ### [Sen. Tim Kaine: What John McCain Taught Me About Governing, Losing and Life](https://time.com/5378683/john-mccain-tim-kaine-senate/) Including his wisdom after the 2016 election [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 26, 2017 ### [Tim Kaine: Backing Out of the Iran Agreement Would Damage America’s Moral Authority](https://time.com/4958238/tim-kaine-donald-trump-iran/) The Senator writes it would also injure possible solutions with North Korea [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 5, 2017 ### [Tim Kaine: People Like Condi Rice and Albert Einstein Show Why We Need the Arts](https://time.com/4846117/trump-budget-nea-arts-funding/) How science, math and politics benefit from arts funding [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 2, 2017 ### [Betsy DeVos Is the Wrong Choice for Secretary of Education](https://time.com/4658065/betsy-devos-secretary-education-nominee/) She's proven that she knows little about the constitutional rights of disabilities [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 1, 2016 ### [Gun Violence Is a Public-Health Crisis](https://time.com/4537499/tim-kaine-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists/) 'We have to make a decision about what matters to us' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 12, 2016 ### [Everyone Deserves Affordable Higher Education](https://time.com/4487330/tim-kaine-higher-education-plan-2/) Opportunities to learn should not require becoming tens of thousands of dollars in debt [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 17, 2015 ### [Congress Has Been Too Silent on ISIS](https://time.com/4117327/paris-attacks-congress/) We must take responsibility for our involvement [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/sen-tim-kaine/","name":"Sen. Tim Kaine"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/sen-tim-kaine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/sen-tim-kaine/"},"name":"Sen. Tim Kaine","jobTitle":"","description":"Tim Kaine is a Democratic U.S. senator representing Virginia.","url":"https://time.com/author/sen-tim-kaine/","sameAs":["https://x.com/timkaine"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```