Issues & Policy / Foreign Policy

How America goes to war

The Miller Center's National War Powers Commission addressed a fundamental problem that's back in the news

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missile launch

War and Terrorism

Rhetoric and reality in North Korea

Are threatening statements from Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump changing the dynamic in the standoff between the United States and North Korea? The Miller Center's Brantly Womack offers his assessment.
Earth from space

Science and Technology

To infinity and beyond

A journey through the American space program, through the lens of the presidency
Natalie Russell
Ronald Reagan

Foreign Affairs

The Iran-Contra Affair

The Reagan administration's covert arms-for-hostages action necessitated the appointment of an independent counsel in 1986.
Bryan Craig
Cracking earth

Energy and the Environment

Veering off the road from Paris

Now the United States has veered off of the climate road that the entire world built together. Europe is still on course. China and India are too. But we will be cutting a new path, alone in the wilderness.