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Politicians, journalists, and government officials frequently participate in Miller Center panel discussions

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UVA students are enthusiastic participants in Miller Center events throughout the year

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Miller Center speakers address the nation's most pressing problems—sometimes eliciting protests

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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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November 02, 2012 08:30 AM

Exploring Variation in State Policy Choices during the Great Recession

  • Andrea Louise Campbell

October 31, 2012 07:00 AM

It's Even Worse Than It Looks

  • Norman J. Ornstein

  • Thomas E Mann

October 29, 2012 07:00 AM

Strom Thurmond's America

  • Joseph Crespino

October 26, 2012 04:30 AM

Recasting Presidential History

October 22, 2012 07:00 AM

50 Years After Camelot: The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Marc Selverstone

October 15, 2012 07:00 AM

W Was Right

  • Stephen Knott

October 12, 2012 08:30 AM

A Little Insurance: Landlords, Colored People & Forgotten Uses of the Federal Housing Administration

  • Nathan Connolly

October 11, 2012 07:00 AM

Love, Death and the Health Care Crisis

  • Amanda Bennett

October 09, 2012 08:30 AM

The 2012 Presidential Election in Historical Context

  • Ron Formisano

  • Sidney M. Milkis

  • Christina Wolbrecht

October 08, 2012 07:00 AM

America Divided

  • E. J. Dionne Jr.

October 05, 2012 08:30 AM

Mexican Migration to the United States: New Patterns, New Responses?

  • Susan Martin

October 01, 2012 07:00 AM

The Roots of All of Us

  • Rachel L. Swarns

September 28, 2012 08:30 AM

Inventing Postindustrial Politics

September 27, 2012 07:00 AM

Crisis in Syria

  • Michele Dunne

September 24, 2012 07:00 AM

Fact vs. Presidential Myth: The Obama Version

  • David Maraniss

September 17, 2012 07:00 AM

Revealing Congress: How C-SPAN Changed Democracy

  • Brian Lamb

September 12, 2012 07:00 AM

The Way Forward

  • Teresa A. Sullivan

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