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One bigly unindicted co-conspirator and other bunches of them, including some in Epstein files now

Trump's efforts to lean on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reminiscent of the way Nixon created a team of secret investigators, known as "the plumbers," to find incriminating or embarrassing evidence about his enemies, said Ken Hughes, a leading Watergate authority and research specialist at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Ken Hughes

The potency of genuine character

Grace Coolidge showed that authenticity builds trust when public actions match private values.

Colleen Shogan

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ

“My view as a scholar and a constitutional historian would be that his promotion of the insurrection of January 6, and his continuation of perpetuating this view that Joe Biden stole the election: that is undermining the American constitutional system, the rule of law,” said Perry. “Not to mention the racism and the bias against anybody who’s not a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. So all those things will work against him, I believe, throughout history.

Barbara Perry

Why have Virginians’ health insurance premiums increased?

Melanie Anne Egorin, a public health and policy professor at the University of Virginia, told VPM News that prices do matter, even when something as consequential as healthcare is involved.

Melanie Egorin

When Governments Disagree, Can Universities Keep The World Connected?

When cooperation is most urgently needed, countries are turning inward. Diplomatic disengagement is increasing, isolationism is gaining ground, and new walls — political, economic and intellectual — are being erected against international cooperation. Universities have a special obligation to push in the opposite direction.

Stephen D. Mull

Japan’s Nuclear Taboo is Shattering

Eric and Eliot kick off Shield of the Republic’s new era by discussing Trump’s Canada trade war, Japan’s shifting nuclear strategy and accelerating defense budget, Venezuela's oil, and the ongoing Iran war.

Eric Edelman