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What Trump can and can't do on Day 1 — providing he wins reelection

On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has made many promises about what he'd do on his first day in office, should he win again. Some are more realistic than others.

Barbara Perry

Would China Risk it All?

Eric hosts Dale Copeland, Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics at UVA and faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center. They talk about analysts who are either China "pessimists" who believe a conflict between the U.S. and China is unavoidable and China "optimists" who think it may be possible to avoid conflict.

Dale Copeland, Eric Edelman

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Political Matriarch

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the mother of a 20th century political dynasty. In this episode, we’ll explore her history through the museum she helped create at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts, and speak with historian Barbara Perry, author of, "Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch."

Barbara Perry

Barbara Perry on Biden, Trump Debate Announcement

Barbara Perry, Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia, shares her insight on President Biden and former President Trump agreeing to two Presidential debates, and discusses the unusualness of having a debate before either Republican or Democratic Conventions.

Barbara Perry

Balance of Power: Biden Announces New China Tariffs

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Mara Rudman discusses the ongoing negotiations for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Mara Rudman

History's First Draft

To this growing literature historian and former U.S. government official Michael Kimmage has now added Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability. The book is replete with literary and historical allusions that assert the conflict is a result of three collisions collectively shaking the global order and producing an international situation that the author suggests is more “combustible” than the Cold War or even World War II.

Eric Edelman