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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

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

Inside the White House on 9/11: An oral history of the “darkest day” in recent American history

An oral history project by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville offers a glimpse, through 80 interviews with members of that administration (the Bush 43rd, to distinguish it from that of George Bush Sr., Bush 41), into what happened in the White House and other key locations during those hours.

Russell Riley

NewsNation Films to present original documentary “W: Portrait of a Presidency”

“W: Portrait of a Presidency,” an original documentary produced by NewsNation Films, will air on Saturday, September 12, at 9 p.m. Narrated by veteran journalist and nightly news anchor Elizabeth Vargas, the one-hour special will chronicle the presidency of George W. Bush during the dawn of the new millennium, taking viewers inside one of the most consequential periods of modern American history. The special will feature reflections and commentary from a range of experts and journalists, including Russell Riley of the Miller Center.

Russell Riley

Melania Trump presses importance of White House stewardship as her husband upends the historic grounds

Barbara Perry, a professor of governance at University of Virginia’s Miller Center who was in attendance, compared Trump’s comments on Wednesday and her work in the first term to former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who founded the White House Historical Association.

Barbara Perry