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Ashley Deeks To Serve as UVA Law Vice Dean

Professor Ashley S. Deeks, a national security law expert, will serve as the next vice dean of the University of Virginia School of Law.

Ashley Deeks

Are Trump’s Actions Truly Unprecedented? We Asked 35 Historians.

“Mr. Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase; the annexation of Texas; national expansion to the southwest and California; and occasional trial balloons about the acquisition of Cuba — there is a long history of such efforts. But these impulses have been largely dead since at least the middle of the 20th century," says Russell Riley.

Russell Riley, Marc Selverstone

Another Turning Point

Turning Point: The Vietnam War, which premieres on this anniversary, is a new five-part Netflix documentary series.

Ken Hughes

After the Arrests and Bullets, Trump Takes on Second Term With a New Fervor

"If history provides any guide here, the rebalancing will come. The question is how much pain we’ll have to endure until the constitutional order finds a more stable equilibrium that commands broad assent from the public," said Selverstone.

Marc Selverstone

The Globe has tracked the most notable moves of Trump’s first 100 days of his second term. Here’s what we found.

“It’s a shift to see efforts to bring all of the executive branch within the president’s political and personal control,” said Andrew Rudalevige, a Bowdoin College professor and senior fellow at the Miller Center at University of Virginia. “That’s not unprecedented in American history, but it’s very different than the history of the last, say, 50 years since Watergate.”

Andrew Rudalevige

Life has 'been turned upside down': Fired federal worker talks DOGE impact on Trump’s first 100 days

Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia, said presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton tried to streamline government, but DOGE stands out.

Barbara Perry