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At the Miller Center, we believe that opposing positions can both have merit; that we can investigate questions of fact and discuss questions of opinion; that we can be open to changing our minds; and that our political system benefits from compromise. That’s why every year we bring together Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. We convene dozens of events fostering civil and intellectual dialogue among scholars, politicians, journalists, and citizens.

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September 07, 2012 12:00 PM

Secrets and Traditions, Part 1

  • Guian McKee

September 07, 2012 12:00 PM

Secrets and Traditions, Part 2

May 18, 2012 07:00 AM

The Long Battle Ahead: The 2012 Presidential Election and How The Washington Post Will Cover It

  • Marcus Brauchli

  • Chris Cillizza

May 09, 2012 07:00 AM

‘Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden—from 9/11 to Abbottabad’

  • Peter Bergen

May 07, 2012 07:00 AM

What the American Public Thinks About the Obama Administration's Push for Evidence-Based Medicine

  • Eric M. Patashnik

May 04, 2012 08:30 AM

Delegated Powers: The Mix of Public and Private Authority in American Social Policy

  • Kimberly J. Morgan

April 30, 2012 07:00 AM

Watergate in Nixonland: The challenge of presenting public history in a presidential ibrary

  • Timothy Naftali

April 27, 2012 08:30 AM

The Case for Policy-Focused Political Analysis

  • Paul Pierson

April 23, 2012 07:00 AM

Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of the Global Jihad

  • Bruce Riedel

April 16, 2012 08:30 AM

The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking

  • Beth Simmons

April 16, 2012 07:00 AM

Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

  • J Harvie Wilkinson

April 13, 2012 08:30 AM

'Generation Gap’ to ‘Just Say No’: Suburban Politics and the War on Drugs from the 1960s - 1980s

  • Matthew D. Lassiter

April 06, 2012 08:30 AM

Money Matters: Debt Markets and Growth Politics in the Modern United States

  • David Freund

April 02, 2012 07:00 AM

Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

  • Del Quentin Wilber

March 30, 2012 08:30 AM

When the World Seemed New: American Foreign Policy in the Age of George H.W. Bush

  • Jeffrey A. Engel

March 26, 2012 07:00 AM

The Real Romney

  • Michael Kranish

March 19, 2012 01:30 PM

Civility in American Politics: How to Get (Some of) it Back

  • Jonathan Haidt

March 16, 2012 07:00 AM

Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

  • Frank Costigliola

February 24, 2012 06:00 AM

Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft

  • Allen C. Lynch

February 20, 2012 06:00 AM

Presidential Elections - The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents

  • Linda Killian

February 17, 2012 06:00 AM

The Black History of the White House

  • Clarence Lusane

February 13, 2012 06:00 AM

U.S. Intelligence in the Wake of September 11:The Rise of the Spy Commando

  • Frederick P. Hitz

February 10, 2012 06:00 AM

Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President

  • Eli Saslow

February 06, 2012 06:00 AM

Shifting Sands: The Middle East in Upheaval

  • Kenneth M. Pollack

February 03, 2012 06:00 AM

Election 2012 and Retooling the American Economy

  • Alan Murray

January 30, 2012 12:30 PM

The Obamas

  • Jodi Kantor

January 27, 2012 06:00 AM

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

  • Theda Skocpol

January 23, 2012 06:00 AM

American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America

  • David O. Stewart

January 20, 2012 12:30 PM

Keys to the Kingdom

  • Senator Bob Graham

January 16, 2012 06:00 AM

MLK Day Event: New Forum Chair Doug Blackmon

  • Douglas Blackmon

December 16, 2011 06:00 AM

The State of the U.S. Economy

  • Peter L. Rodriguez

December 12, 2011 06:00 AM

A Conversation About U.S. Immigration Policy

  • Alejandro Mayorkas