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Support for a president running for reelection tends to soften at midterm time

Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, said, “He’s 79 years old. And there’s nothing that will make that reverse."

Barbara A. Perry

Congress is shooting for the moon, and getting close

According to Barbara A. Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, "Biden’s accomplishments are more on par with J.F.K.’s New Frontier legislation—somewhere between simply tweaking policies around the edges and wholesale refashioning of American government.”

Barbara A. Perry

‘A bit of a superhero.’ Biden turns around presidency with recent successes that buoy Democrats ahead of midterms

Biden’s list of achievements in his first 18 months mark his term as moderately successful so far, and he gets extra credit for doing so with razor-thin congressional margins in a time of bitter partisan division, said Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Barbara A. Perry

Peak China and the lessons of the cold war

The University of Virginia's Miller Center Senior Fellow Eric Edelman discusses why conflict with China may be coming sooner than we think.

Eric Edelman

Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering

When Biden met with historians last week at the White House—including Allida Black, the University of Virginia's Miller Center distinguished visiting scholar—they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before World War II.

Allida Black

Battlefield lessons for Ukraine, Taiwan

Host Michael Morell speaks with Eric Edelman, senior practitioner fellow at University of Virginia's Miller Center, about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and likely lessons being drawn about the West's response and the nature of the battle by the People's Republic of China.

Eric Edelman