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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

If AI really could kill us all, why give any ground to China?

“Beijing likely has its own deep concerns about AI’s potential to destabilize its social and political system,” said Philip Potter, executive director of the University of Virginia’s National Security Data and Policy Institute.

Philip Potter

The Iran War Explodes into the Red Sea

Eric Edelman and Elliot Cohen examine the widening conflict in the Middle East, focusing on the Houthi offensive in the Red Sea and Iranian horizontal escalation.

Eric Edelman

Perceptions of US government corruption are soaring. What can be done?

To the extent that there’s a precedent for the current situation, Watergate is probably as close as it gets, says Russell Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. But the Watergate scandal was different, he adds, “in that there was not the pattern of self-enrichment that you see in this instance.”

Russell Riley

Higher Education Must Overcome Comforting Delusions

"To set out on the right path, colleges and units should abandon the comforting delusion that the answer to their woes consists in refashioning popular narratives about their conduct."

Peter Berkowitz

Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists

Mr. Trump’s decision to speak so frequently and forcefully about communism is a throwback to the Cold War, said Barbara A. Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia. No president since George H.W. Bush has focused on communism in any meaningful way, she said.

Barbara Perry