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With enough help, Ukraine can win

"Support from the United States could determine Ukraine’s fate," write Stephen E. Biegun, Daniel Fata, David J. Kramer, and the University of Virginia's Miller Center Senior Practitioner Fellow Eric Edelman.
Eric Edelman
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The New Deal and FDR's presidential campaigns

Our curators were joined by Barbara Perry, the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, who discussed the relationship between the New Deal and Roosevelt’s route to an unprecedented third term in office.
Barbara A. Perry
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On NATO, McConnell nudges GOP away from Trump-era approach

Eric Edelman, a former U.S. ambassador to Finland and Turkey and practitioner senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, writes that "The whole fight over Ukraine has become a little bit of a microcosm, a microcosmic case, of the larger fight in the party over its future stand on foreign policy."
Eric Edelman
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Would we have paid parental leave if more moms were in Congress?

It matters that women are entering politics earlier, because unlike male politicians—Pete Buttigieg, who ran for president after a mere two terms as mayor of a small city, comes to mind—they “feel they need to be more qualified to succeed,” said Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics and faculty senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
Jennifer Lawless