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Schumer Looks to Exploit GOP’s IVF Identity Crisis

"This is certainly a case where Donald Trump's saying that he can have his cake and eat it too. He can take credit for overturning Roe v. Wade – which sent this back to the states and created a situation where states can now try to limit IVF – and he then wants to say that that's not what he did. He's going to allow for IVF across the board and actually expand it. And those two things are just completely counter to one another."
Jennifer Lawless
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Why We Should Be Worried About Iranian Nukes

Eric and Eliot discuss the intensifying cooperation among Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea including the just announced intensified schedule of joint Sino-Russian military exercises and Iran's transfer of medium range Fateh 360 ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine.
Eric Edelman
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Revisiting the Ford presidency

Fifty years ago, the trauma of Watergate rocked the nation, leading to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon and the presidency of Gerald R. Ford. To reflect on this era, the Miller Center brings together our core presidential studies scholars, who will examine these developments through the Secret White House Tapes and the Gerald R. Ford Oral History Project—the Center’s first major initiative after its founding in 1975.
Barbara Perry, Ken Hughes, Guian McKee, Marc Selverstone, William Antholis, and Russell Riley
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Debate Suggests Men May Be Too Emotional To Be President

“The performance by the two candidates last night should, but probably won’t, put to rest forever the myth that all men are rational and all women are emotional,” said Barbara A. Perry, a presidential studies professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Barbara Perry