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The Bulwark

Biden Is Trying to Deter Putin from Using Nukes. His Staff Isn’t Helping.

Over more than a half century of national security debates, President Biden made unmistakably clear his desire to reduce both the possibility of a nuclear weapons being used and the proliferation of those weapons. Sadly—for him, for our national interest, and for the world—his national security team seems intent on undercutting him at every turn.
Eric Edelman
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Nau Foundation’s $17 million gift supports Democracy Institute, teaching of history

“The Nau Foundation’s extraordinary generosity positions the Karsh Institute for impact on Grounds and beyond the University,” J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and executive director of the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy Melody Barnes said. “It enhances our ability to accelerate collaboration among UVA’s world-class schools, centers, faculty and students; develop unique and effective programming; and build meaningful local, state and national partnerships.”
Melody Barnes
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What Erdoğan has wrought?

Eric Edelman, Practitioner Senior Fellow at University of Virginia's Miller Center, writes that "in the wake of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, moving swiftly to incorporate Finland and Sweden into NATO is imperative for the geopolitical and military benefits it brings to European security."
Eric Edelman
View of the empty Xizang Middle Road and People's Square, one of Shanghai's busiest roads during the lockdown

Economic Issues

China’s slowdown and its spillovers around the world

A slowdown in China, the second largest economy in the world, will undoubtedly affect the rest of the world. But the severity of the impact is difficult to estimate.
Frank Warnock
Miller Center Ukraine war blog
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Fifty years later, the shadow of Watergate still lingers

"People would like the Trump investigation to be the next Watergate, and often I tell them it is, it's just that we don't see it. Because we haven't yet learned the lessons of Watergate. It's such a complex scandal,” says University of Virginia's Miller Center Research Specialist Ken Hughes.
Ken Hughes
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Will the Jan. 6 hearings change any minds? UVA scholars weigh in

"The hearings were carefully designed to deliver a series of key moments that can circulate in both traditional and social media," says Guian McKee, an associate professor in presidential studies at UVA's Miller Center. "Some of those may break through partisan bubbles, or simple apathy, to create at least a limited shift in public opinion—a shift to the realization that the insurrection was an assault on the Constitution, and that its apologists are staging a slow-moving assault on democracy. Ultimately, there is a question about whether there is still any capacity for shame in American public life. I hope that there is."
Guian McKee