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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

Tesla Profit Falls Even as Car Sales Rebound

“The rhetoric makes it sounds like they are pioneering this business,” Michael Lenox, interim dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, said of Tesla. “But they are way behind Waymo.”

Michael Lenox

Gettysburg College celebrates 2026 master’s graduates in American history

“What you share with your students—in addition to the vast knowledge of history you impart to them, and now that is bolstered by all you have acquired with this new master’s degree from Gettysburg and through The Gilder Lehrman Institute—is a commitment to our freedom of thought, as Thomas Jefferson famously expressed it,” Perry said.

Barbara Perry

Is there really a global loneliness epidemic? Research reveals a more complex picture

Even in the age of social media, we hear of loneliness being on the rise everywhere – to the extent that some have labelled it an epidemic.

David Leblang

Presidential Cabinet

Trump Had the Firepower. Iran Had the Strategy.

Eric welcomes back friend of the show Professor Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. The two discuss Hal's recent work, beginning with his column in Bloomberg dissecting the key strategic errors that Trump has made in the ongoing war with Iran.

Eric Edelman