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Miller Center's Bush 41 documentary premieres Tuesday on PBS. Here's a preview.

A new documentary from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs takes viewers back to the end of the Cold War, when President George H.W. Bush and his foreign policy team navigated the reunification of Germany, the fall of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War and other challenges.

William Antholis

If Biden wins, his vice president could determine the success of his presidency

The political world has turned its attention to Joe Biden’s vice presidential selection, which the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee promised to make next week. That choice will have a significant impact on a potential Biden presidency, thanks to one of his former Senate colleagues: Walter F. Mondale. As President Jimmy Carter’s second-in-command, Mondale blazed a new path for the vice presidency. Although Carter failed to win reelection for a second term, the changes these two men made to the vice presidency have endured.

Steven M. Gillon

Could the election be delayed?

Barbara Perry is interviewed on Alhurra TV.

Barbara Perry

Former Deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu on Presidential Debate Preparations

Chris Lu, former Deputy Secretary of Labor in the Obama Administration, on the Press Pool with Julie Mason.

Chris Lu

Washington Must Address Turkey's Rising Aggression Amid COVID-19 | Opinion

Most of the headlines about COVID-19's global upheaval focus on how adversaries like China have begun acting more belligerently against U.S. interests. But increasingly, Turkey, formally a NATO ally, is also taking advantage of the pandemic to expand its influence in very destabilizing ways across the Eastern Mediterranean, an area of growing importance to the United States.

Eric Edelman

Reshaped After the Pandemic: Turkish Aggression in the Eastern Mediterranean

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s shake-up of domestic politics and international relations across the globe, Turkey is expanding its influence in the Eastern Mediterranean and creating challenging new conditions on the ground and offshore that the United States could struggle to address, and which threaten regional partners like Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan summarized these destabilizing ambitions last month when he announced “Turkey will be one of the outstanding countries in the world that will be reshaped after the pandemic.” Washington’s own lack of focus on the region has helped invite Ankara’s growing aggressiveness, which in turn worsens security competition in an energy-rich region that increasingly resembles the South China Sea – with Turkey more and more playing the role of China.

Eric Edelman