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Commission on the National Defense Strategy Report Readout

The Commission on the National Defense Strategy discusses their report describing the U.S. strategic threat environment, which will inform future budget requests, legislation, appropriations, and Department of Defense operations and planning.

Eric Edelman, Mara Rudman

6 Breakout Speeches From US Presidential Conventions

Barbara Perry, an author and professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where she co-directs the Presidential Oral History Program, says party conventions are like “a four-day pep rally,” where candidates not only share their platforms but also aim to unify the party, especially after contentious primary seasons.

Barbara Perry

Historian compares Trump shooting to past assassination attempts

“It’s unfathomable to me how the security people missed a kid with an assault weapon up on a building with a sight line to the former president.”

Barbara Perry

Why Republicans see a chance to flip the rhetorical script and box in Biden and Democrats

"Based in Charlottesville, I am only too aware that the 45th president’s first year in office was marked by a Nazi invasion of this university town and that his last month as president saw a MAGA invasion of the U.S. Capitol to overturn the 2020 election results."

Barbara Perry

Biden, addressing NAACP, bashes Trump in bid to move beyond age questions

“I suspect Team Trump would dearly like to have the election held tomorrow. It won’t be. That’s the best news around right now for Team Biden.”

Russell Riley

‘Unfit for office’: 10 times JD Vance criticized Trump before landing VP nod

"It’s really interesting that J.D. Vance had said negative things about Donald Trump in the past, because he’s not even distancing himself from the fact that he did it."

Jennifer Lawless