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Trump machine churns out plans for transition; campaign team smooths out bumps of 2016

Mr. Trump set a modern-day bar for administrative turnover, said Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution who tracks turnover at the White House.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

UVA Professor: Constant Tracking of Public School Students Online Is Unwarranted

For 24 hours a day, seven days a week, American public-school students are being watched and tracked online, according to a new law review article by Danielle K. Citron, a University of Virginia School of Law professor who writes and teaches about privacy, free expression and civil rights.

Danielle Citron

China Isn’t a Rising Country, It’s Risen: Dr. Brantly Womack on His New Book

Brantly Womack, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Virginia and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, discusses his new book, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and the World Order," at Emory University.

Brantly Womack

Former Secret Service Agent Makes Startling Claim About Bullet Found After Kennedy Assassination

Historian Steve Gillon, who has studied the assassination and wrote a book on the subject, questions the veracity of Landis' account, which he says contradicts the findings of the Warren Commission.

Steven M. Gillon

The nuclear button to end Trump’s race to the White House

Russell L. Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, believes there are “sound reasons to believe that it [the disqualification clause] would be applicable to Trump and thus render him ineligible for office. Especially given the sentences issued to the January 6 protesters, including the Proud Boys, it is hard not to find that the president was to blame for a real insurrection, consistent with the terms of the 14th amendment.”

Russell Riley

Vietnam Is a Partner, Not an Ally Against China

Improving relations with the United States is also crucial for Vietnam’s sense of security and for its export economy. And, strangely enough, the United States is popular in Vietnam, including fond memories of President Donald Trump, who made two visits to Hanoi. To Vietnam, the United States represents an opportunity, rather than a threat.

Brantly Womack