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JD Vance, surrounded by poverty and drug addiction, vowed never to forget where he came from

In his first speech as Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee, JD Vance went all in on selling himself to the white working class.

Guian McKee

Can a convention speech sway voters?

“Undecided voters really are the target audience.”

Guian McKee

The Long Shadow of the Evil Empire

Eric and Eliot host Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies based in Bologna, Italy. They discuss Sergey’s personal story of growing up in Sakhalin in the Soviet Union, living in China, becoming an historian and gaining access to documentary sources in both countries that were heretofore unavailable and which shed new light on the history of the Cold War.

Eric Edelman

Elections

Election 2024 and the transition

Historians See Echoes of 1968 in Trump Assassination Attempt

“People are feeling like the country is coming apart at the seams. That's exactly how it felt in 1968,” says Barbara A. Perry, a Professor of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Barbara Perry

UVA Expert: Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Would’ve Been a Gift to Nixon

According to Nixon expert Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, there was no question in the White House, Congress, or the Supreme Court after Watergate that a former president could be prosecuted for crimes committed when he wielded the powers of the presidency. In fact, President Gerald R. Ford conceded as much when he pardoned his former boss.

Ken Hughes