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The first 100 days: Meaningful milestone or debunked benchmark?

President Franklin Roosevelt served an unprecedented 4,422 days in office, but his first 100 set a benchmark by which his successors are inevitably measured.

USA Today

The Debrief with Major Garrett

Presidential Studies Director Barbara A. Perry discusses Biden's first 100 days in office.

Barbara A. Perry

Biden's first 100 days is 'stylistic' antithesis of Trump

Barbara A. Perry notes that Biden's calm, rational persona has "come across and calmed the country." Perry is the Director of Presidential Studies at the Miller Center.

Barbara A. Perry

China-born Chloe Zhao sought common ground in Oscars speech

UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas notes that the circumstances of Zhao's win, suppressed by the Chinese government on a night with record-low Oscar viewership, offer the chance to think about "Nomadland" as art made by humans rather than geopolitical actors.

Aynne Kokas

30 Black Women Trailblazing Visual Representation and Racial Justice

Frieze Magazine highlights the accomplishments of Melody C. Barnes, one of 30 Black women honored for trailblazing racial justice. Pictured here with President Barack Obama, Barnes served as Obama's Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as Executive Vice President of the Center for American Progress. She co-directs UVA's Democracy Initiative.

Melody C. Barnes

'Help is Here': 100 days of the Biden doctrine

Barbara Perry, director of Presidential Studies, discusses the "100-day" window. "It could be meaningful in the long term. But it could also be overtaken by the swath of history."

Barbara Perry