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America Still Needs Jimmy Carter’s Health Care Agenda—Even If It Flopped

Carter’s willingness to tackle the politically perilous task of trying to rein in health care costs offers a template for the kind of leadership and focus needed to address the health care system’s enduring flaws in 2024.

Guian McKee

Remembering Jimmy Carter

“Some consider him to be the nation’s greatest former president,” wrote Robert A. Strong of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that focuses on presidential scholarship.

Robert Strong

Jimmy Carter’s Legacy as a Champion of Peace, Public Health, and Affordable Housing

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, who tirelessly championed peacekeeping and humanitarian causes after leaving the Oval Office, died on Sunday. He was 100.

Robert Strong

Will Tesla Become the Blackberry of Electric Vehicles?

University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Michael Lenox says the EV industry is in a classic “shakeout” phase as new competitors finally catch up with – and sometimes surpass – the original disruptive innovators.

Michael Lenox

U.S. Military Still Misunderstands How Cities Work

Eliot and Eric welcome John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies with the Madison Policy Forum and Co-Director of the Urban Warfare Project and author of numerous articles and studies of urban and subterranean warfare. They discuss the unique characteristics of urban warfare, the traditional U.S. military approach to urban warfare as well as historical examples from the U.S.-Mexican War in the 19th Century to more recent examples like the Battle of Aachen in World War II and the Battles of Baghdad, Fallujah, and Sadr City during the Iraq War.

Eric Edelman

Amazing Women Rhode Island: Jennifer Lawless

We are more politically divided than we have ever been in over 30 years. Jennifer Lawless, chair of the Politics Department at the University of Virginia, discusses the national political scene and “affective polarization."

Jennifer Lawless