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Roundup: William Tong, Jake Sussman, Marc Selverstone, Talmage Boston

Historian (and 1972 Staples High School graduate) Talmage Boston, discussed his new book, “How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents.” The moderator was 1980 Staples grad Marc Selverstone, the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs’ director of presidential studies. Referencing America’s 8 greatest presidents, Boston explored how their leadership traits can be applied today.
Marc Selverstone
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Signal chat implications for U.S. national security

Following the Atlantic's reporting on the breach of security via members of the President's National Security Council communicating on imminent military operations via SignalChat, Mara Rudman discusses why such actions pose such a direct threat to U.S. national security.
Mara Rudman
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Enemies Lists

In late June 1973, former White House counsel John Dean delivered startling testimony before the congressional committee investigating Watergate: Richard Nixon had an enemies list. The point, as Dean had written in a 1971 memo, was to "use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." The exposure of Nixon's dirty tricks led to his downfall. In 2024, Donald Trump openly campaigned to exact revenge on his enemies. Rather than alienating Republican voters, Trump's call for retribution rallied them. In this episode, historian Ken Hughes compares and contrasts the differences between then and now.
Ken Hughes
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The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition

Women today are just as unlikely as women 20 years ago to express interest in running for office. That’s right. We’ve been studying women and men’s interest in running for office for more than two decades and, as we make clear in our new book, "It Takes More Than a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office," very little has changed.
Jennifer Lawless
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The Khalil Case and the Difference Lawful Permanent Resident Status Makes

The government’s attempt to remove Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident (LPR) of the United States and student at Columbia University, is a marked departure from long-standing law and practice. Immigration officials have not claimed that Khalil, whose U.S. citizen wife is awaiting the birth of their first child, has engaged in unlawful conduct. Rather, officials have invoked a rarely used provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C), that renders a noncitizen removable when the secretary of state has found that his or her continued presence creates “potentially serious” risks for U.S. foreign policy.
David A. Martin