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How Birch Bayh saved the progressive wing of the Democratic Party

The announcement of Bayh’s death this week at the age of 91 recalls his role in the mid-20th century’s version of progressive Democratic politics and how it might enlighten today’s struggle for the party’s soul.

Barbara Perry

Hero or villain, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remains a media fixation

“This idea of making [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] the face of the Democratic party hits a lot of boxes for them,” said Nicole Hemmer of the Miller Center. “She is young, a symbol of the party moving to the left, and she isn’t afraid of the word ‘socialism.’”

Nicole Hemmer

Whatever happened to overtime?

Labor expert and Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu joined "Pitchfork Economics" to explain why the overtime threshold, which used to cover 65 percent of workers, today covers only 7 percent.

Chris Lu

Investigating Trump

Senior Fellow Chris Lu talks about how Democrats are putting pressure on Trump by launching new investigations.

Chris Lu

The massage parlor owner and Mar-a-Lago

The Miller Center's Chris Lu, a former deputy secretary of labor who was a co-chairman of the White House Asian-Americans initiative during the Obama administration, cautions against casually imputing dual loyalty to Li Yang or anyone else. Yang is a Florida businesswoman whose family owns a chain of massage parlors that, as "The Miami Herald" put it, “have gained a reputation for offering sexual services.”

Chris Lu

The making of the Fox News White House

Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of Presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”

Nicole Hemmer