Issues & Policy / U.S. Domestic Policy

Race and criminal justice

In a new documentary, the Miller Center looks at race, policing, and the criminal justice system through the lens of the presidency

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Race and Racism

‘Quick with the revolver’

Phone calls from 1964, 1965, and 1967 illustrate President Johnson's response to police violence and racial unrest during his presidency
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Religion

White Christianity is its own biggest threat

"For believers in a religion whose Scriptures teach compassion, we’re a breathtakingly cruel bunch," writes Miller Center senior fellow Charles Matthewes in the Washington Post.
Charles Mathewes