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'This Is a Flashing Red Light': Trump Triggers Alarm With Another Baseless Attack on Mail-In Voting

Chris Lu, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center who held multiple positions in the Obama administration, pointed out to Twitter's support staff that Trump's tweet resembles a pair of the president's posts from May to which the social media company added fact-check labels.

Chris Lu

Trump turns White House into backdrop for political events

“To me what happened is he can’t go out to do the muck and mire politics that he does so well and that obviously his base loves, and so he’s brought the muck and mire into the Rose Garden,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Barbara Perry

Chris Lu on Need for Additional Economic Relief

Senior Fellow Chris Lu is interviewed on MSNBC.

Chris Lu

Trump’s re-election campaign hits new lows amid pandemic carnage

“It’s a cataclysm that directly impacts every single person and Trump’s not doing his job very well and the economy is tanking and we have racial unrest,” said Prof. Perry, director of presidential studies at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. “For him, it seems like the worst of all possible perfect storms.”

Barbara Perry

Is Seeing Still Believing? Synthetic Media and Illiberal Uses of Technology

At this exercise on June 15, 2020, CNAS challenged the audience to spot the difference between real and synthetic media (digital forgeries). How will artificial intelligence (AI) enable media manipulation and advance illiberal uses of technology?

Aynne Kokas

To Block Trump’s Troop Withdrawals, Congress Turns An Old Tactic Upside Down

“He’s not a strategic thinker, but he has some instincts that have been consistent,” said John Owen, head of the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics. “One of those is that the U.S. has fought a lot of worthless wars, in particular Iraq and Afghanistan, and the second is that the U.S. is being exploited by freeriding allies. The problem he has is that very few in Congress agree with him.”

John M. Owen IV