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Paul Nitze: National Security's Forgotten Man

Eric and Eliot host James Graham Wilson, an historian in the Department of State's Historian's Office to discuss his new book America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security From Roosevelt to Reagan. They discuss Nitze's background as an America First supporter between the wars, his anti-Semitism and his family's connection to the Black Tom sabotage incident during World War I.

Eric Edelman

Harris’ Focus on Abortion Goes Back for Years

“There’s an authenticity that she has as a woman that an 80-plus year old man does not,” Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, tells me.

Jennifer Lawless

How Harris Can Tackle the Clinton Factor

Jennifer Lawless, a political scientist at the University of Virginia who has extensively studied the experience of women in politics, told me that other academic and media surveys have found a growing willingness to consider women appropriate leaders across a wide range of professional fields. She sees “very little difference in how male and female candidates and how male and female leaders in other industries” are viewed.

Jennifer Lawless

Europe

U.S. faces growing threats, and we’re woefully unprepared

The U.S. faces significant, complex national security threats

Foreign Policy

Diversifying Taiwan's Economic Landscape

To pursue resilience, Taiwan needs to further diversify its economy, enhance policy coordination with like-minded partners, and identify a new frontier of innovation.

Diversifying Taiwan's Economic Landscape

Q&A: Will Biden’s Proposed Supreme Court Reforms Happen?

President Joe Biden announced he would ask Congress to approve reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court and seek a constitutional amendment to overturn the court’s decision in Trump v. United States granting presidents immunity from criminal prosecution. To find out more about the proposals, and the chances of them passing, UVA Today checked in with Barbara A. Perry, the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Barbara Perry