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Even If Trump Loses, Division Remains

"I fear we are stuck in this polarized time and I don't see the end of that," Barbara Perry, director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, says. "But I don't think that means we are stuck forever more in this model that Trump has created for our government."

Barbara Perry

Chris Lu on Closing Days of Presidential Campaign

Senior Fellow Chris Lu is interviewed in MSNBC.

Chris Lu

TikTok deal puts Japan between a rock and a hard place

Whoever wins Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, one of the biggest issues facing lawmakers around the world will be how to deal with Chinese-owned social media sensation, TikTok. No more so than in Japan, where TikTok is one of the country's most popular social media apps, yet local regulators have serious concerns about the video-sharing platform's data protection for its citizens.

Aynne Kokas

Linking Values and Strategy: How Democracies Can Offset Autocratic Advances

In mid-2020, the Alliance for Securing Democracy convened a task force of 30 leading American national security and foreign policy experts to devise a national strategy for the United States to offset autocratic advances in non-military domains of competition. This report reflects the collective insights and recommendations of this bipartisan group. Not all members of the task force agree with every argument or recommendation, but the overall report reflects the general consensus to the best of the authors’ ability.

Eric Edelman

UVA Politics Experts Discuss Three Key Trends for Tuesday's Election

Ahead of Tuesday’s vote, we checked in with three of them – William Antholis, director and CEO of the Miller Center; Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics; and Jennifer Lawless, Commonwealth Professor of Politics and chair of the Department of Politics.

William Antholis

Why Jim Carrey’s Biden impersonation on SNL isn’t quite catching on

A decade ago, as the Obama administration oversaw implementation of the Recovery Act, Chris Lu would see Joe Biden in meetings, witnessing how the then-vice president spoke and moved and comported himself. So when he watches “Saturday Night Live’s" newest A-list political impersonator this season, he knows from experience: Jim Carrey is no Joe Biden.

Chris Lu