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The 2017 elections should give all Americans hope

The Miller Center's Chris Lu writes in TIME about how this year's elections are the story of the remarkable diversity of candidates who sought elected office for the first time—and won.

Chris Lu

The historical importance of off-year elections

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with the Miller Center's Brian Balogh (@historyfellow) about how the importance of off-year elections has changed.

Brian Balogh

Just how divided are Americans since Trump's election?

Brian Balogh, cohost of the Backstory podcast and professor of history at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that the level of partisan divide and Washington gridlock is reminiscent of the late nineteenth century.

Brian Balogh

One year after election, Trump isn't getting any better at his job

It’s one thing not to understand the challenges of a new position. It’s another to ignore the Constitution and the basics of our system, writes the Miller Center's nonresident senior fellow Michael Nelson.

Michael Nelson

Would Donald Trump win an election today?

"If tomorrow we put Donald Trump up against Joe Biden, I think Joe Biden would win," says Professor Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.

Barbara Perry

Tales from the Crypt: Searching for Answers in the New JFK Assassination Files

The Miller Center's Barbara Perry writes, "When people ask me if the newest records of the Kennedy assassination contain any 'smoking guns,' I reply not so far. But wait! We already have three literal smoking guns in the most dastardly crimes perpetrated in American history: the rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald used, the pistol that he murdered a police officer with as he fled the assassination scene, and the handgun that Jack Ruby wielded to kill Oswald."

Barbara Perry