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President Biden's first year

The Miller Center’s The First Year: POTUS 2017 project analyzed past presidential first years and has been able to offer careful, historical reflection to provide context for contemporary governance challenges. Presidential first years are the time when an administration assembles its team, establishes its processes for governing, identifies its priorities, and also weathers a series of crises when the world tests a new commander in chief.

Guian McKee

Fireside chats' with world leaders are part of this J-term course for UVA students

Twelve fourth-year students, selected by professors Bill Antholis and Dave Burke from a group of 50 applicants, have had a chance to interview a series of prominent leaders from a range of fields – including the executive and legislative branches, media and nonprofit organizations.

William Antholis

One year in the White House

Miller Center Director of Presidential Studies Barbara Perry is interviewed on German television about President Biden's first year in office.

Barbara Perry

Almost One Year In: Biden’s Track Record on Nominations and Confirmations

Meanwhile, there are “historic levels of gender and racial/ethnic diversity among the Biden confirmed appointees,” said a report by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, nonresident senior fellow for governance studies at the Brookings Institution, on the administration’s 300-day mark, which came in November.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

What you have to disclose to an employer when COVID-19 positive

Many people think its a violation of their rights to be required to share when they’re sick with COVID-19 or their vaccination status. A law professor with the University of Virginia breaks down what can, and can’t, be asked: “The bottom line way of thinking about this is the employer is required to only reveal the minimal amount necessary to protect other workers or the public,” Margaret Riley with UVA School of Law said.

Margaret Riley

The Presidency

How democracy gets eroded

When Nixon muttered to White House aides that he was the victim of a conspiracy of Jews, intellectuals and Ivy Leaguers, “arrogant” people he said placed themselves above the law, he did so to justify arrogantly placing himself above the law.

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