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Trump administration caps turbulent year with government shutdown

Presidential scholar Barbara Perry contends that Mr. Trump has made chaos in his administration such an organizing principle, and tumult so par for the course, that no single controversy seems particularly damaging to the President. “The potential tipping points seem to happen every day, every month, and we’ve lost perspective and we can’t get our bearings,” said Prof. Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “He’s pressing down on the accelerator.”

Barbara Perry

Books for the Holidays and New Year

Holiday downtime and New Year’s resolutions open the door to reading new titles. Barbara Perry offers book suggestions on influential U.S. political figures on both sides of the aisle, highlighting George H.W. and Barbara Bush. Ms. Perry is the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Director of Presidential Studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. Follow her on Twitter @BarbaraPerryUVA.

Barbara Perry

Trump’s Fed-bashing entails a risk: That he would be blamed for a monetary policy mistake

“If it’s perceived as if he’s influencing the Fed, then the responsibility will fall on his shoulders, and I think it’s also possible that the Fed could overreact,” said Marc Short, Trump’s former director of legislative affairs and a fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Marc Short

Health care turmoil

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu is interviewed on MSNBC about a legal decision striking down the Affordable Care Act

Chris Lu

President Carter: The White House Years

What did the outsider presidency of Jimmy Carter look like from the inside? Join us as Stuart Eizenstat sits down to talk about his new book, "President Carter: The White House Years" with our own Russell Riley.

Russell Riley

Law and Justice

From the Director: What Trump's attorney general pick told the Miller Center

Seventeen years ago, William Barr sat down with the Miler Center to describe what it was like to be the attorney general of the United States under President George H. W. Bush.