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Six Crises: How the U.S. and China Coordinated Despite Strategic Rivalry

In this new video series, Carnegie’s Evan Feigenbaum talks in detail to six senior American decisionmakers who led the coordination with Beijing on some of the toughest—and indeed, some of the scariest—transnational problems the world has faced over the last two decades.

Evan Feigenbaum

Biden ad exposes a rift over China on the left

Chris Lu, a former deputy Labor secretary during the Obama administration, said he didn’t want to minimize the feelings of any of his fellow Asian Americans. But he stressed that it’s hard to get across a ton of nuance in campaign ads, and he added that Biden couldn’t let Trump’s attacks go unanswered. “Campaigns are tough. When you’re attacked, especially unfairly, you need to respond,” Lu said.

Chris Lu

Chris Lu: It's 'absurd' to bail out large corporations but not state and local governments

Andrea Mitchell is joined by Chris Lu, a former Deputy Labor Secretary, who responds to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's suggestion that state and local governments go bankrupt in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, saying that it's "not a way to thank people on front lines of this crisis."

Chris Lu

Two cases that could help ‘recage the executive lion’

At issue is the already much-damaged equilibrium of the Constitution’s separation of powers. If both cases are decided correctly, the vitality of Congress will be enhanced and the pretensions of presidents will be chastened. Today’s column concerns the case involving Congress’s investigative powers. A subsequent column will address the case concerning Congress’s core power, that of controlling government’s purse strings. Tuesday’s arguments will concern standing — whether the House can seek a judicial remedy for its injuries. If it has standing, it should win on the merits. Both cases are, therefore, vital to what University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, in his just-published book, “The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers,” calls the need to “recage the executive lion.”

Saikrishna Prakash

The healthcare system and COVID-19

The Miller Center’s Guian McKee and Kathryn Quissell from UVA’s Department of Public Health Sciences discuss public health governance, how the U.S. healthcare system is managing the coronavirus, how the history of the system has shaped that response, and what we can learn from other countries. Miller Center Director Bill Antholis will moderate the conversation.

William Antholis

The healthcare system and COVID-19

Guian McKee