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Lessons From a Successful American Diplomat

Eric and Eliot discuss VP Vance's trip to Greenland and his appointment by the President to oversee the purging of American history at the Smithsonian and other museums. They also discuss who the biggest loser will be from Signalgate.

Eric Edelman

Dropping U.S. Biodefenses: Why Cuts to Federal Health Agencies Make Americans Less Safe

The Trump administration’s stated goals are to streamline HHS, save taxpayer money, focus more on chronic illness, and make HHS more responsive and efficient. It claims it can make these reforms without impacting critical services. In practice, however, the administration has cut essential funding that was helping states and cities prepare for outbreaks; reassigned leaders who were stopping biological threats in other countries from spreading; undermined the United States’ ability to quickly review and approve treatments and vaccines during an emergency; and disrupted essential work to create vaccines, tests, and treatments for dangerous diseases.

Elizabeth Cameron

Trump Is Issuing A Flurry Of Executive Orders, Not Laws — Here's How They Differ

"Executive orders are supposed to be used to help presidents carry out their Constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law. To use them to do the opposite is hugely problematic."

Andrew Rudalevige

“The Kennedy Withdrawal” with Marc Selverstone

To commemorate the 61st anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza hosted a conversation with historian Marc Selverstone, Director of Presidential Studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, based on his book, “The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam” (2022).

Marc Selverstone

Declassified JFK Papers Reveal Intelligence Operations and Secrets

Suspicions have persisted that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was either not acting alone or was a patsy in the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Some people hoped that the federal government’s recent release of a trove of documents – approximately 80,000 pages related to the assassination – would back up those theories. But Marc Selverstone, the Gerald L. Baliles Professor, director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, says that while the papers have points of interest, they don’t change the perspective of Oswald as the lone gunman.

Marc Selverstone

Trump's 100 Days

The Trump administration’s Signal chat scandal is “one issue that has found some unity among the American people,” says the Miller Center’s Barbara Perry.

Barbara Perry