Experts in the News

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This Time the Damage Will Be Permanent

Eric and Eliot try to parse the fire hose of news emanating from the Trump Administration. They discuss Eliot's Atlantic article on the American antecedents and causes of Trump's ascendancy and whether there is still some point in looking at the European autocrats like Viktor Orban on whom some Trumpists model themselves, as well as Ruy Texeira's article in the Free Press arguing that defending USAID is not the hill to die on for Democrats.
Eric Edelman
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Revisiting the Jimmy Carter presidency

Paige Alexander, CEO of the Carter Center, and Jonathan Alter, author of "His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life," participate in a discussion of our 39th president moderated by Robert Strong, a Miller Center senior fellow who participated in the Center’s Jimmy Carter Presidential Oral History Project.
Robert Strong
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Heavy Casualties May Spur Ukraine War Negotiations

UVA Today sat down with William Antholis, director of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and chair of an every-other-week, off-the-record “Ukraine War Room” video conference, to see if there’s a chance of ending the war.
William Antholis
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H-Diplo Review Essay 613: LBJ's America

Selverstone focuses on the president’s leadership style, including the famous “Johnson treatment,” whereby he charmed, bullied, and cajoled his potential allies.
Marc Selverstone