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What Did Trump's Europe Trip Actually Do?

"What's different now is perception, and perceptions really matter in alliances," says Todd Sechser, a professor at the University of Virginia's Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, who specializes in deterrence and international security. "Alliances are all about creating the perception that allies will defend one another if they're attacked."

Todd Sechser

John Stormer, whose ‘None Dare Call It Treason’ was a landmark of conspiracy literature, dies at 90

The mass distribution marked a unique publicity initiative by the Republican right in which it largely ignored both the mainstream media and standard GOP publications of the day, such as National Review and Human Events. The sudden flood of privately circulated paperbacks by little-known authors without the imprimatur of established book-publishing companies “energized grassroots conservatives, helped Barry Goldwater secure the GOP nomination, and framed the right’s alternative campaign,” Nicole Hemmer, author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” wrote in the Atlantic Online in 2014.

Nicole Hemmer

The Nixon Tapes: Supreme Court Nominations

President Richard Nixon spoke with advisors about filling two Supreme Court vacancies. H.R. Haldeman made diary entries about the openings. Historian Ken Hughes spoke about the dual openings.

Ken Hughes

The Score: Anthony Kennedy, Criminal Justice, New Zealand, Brett Kavanaugh

This week, Dr. Perry is here to discuss how the U.S. Supreme Court may look and act differently now that Justice Anthony Kennedy has retired after thirty years. We spoke less than 24 hours after President Trump announced his nominee for the Supreme Court seat, Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, who once was a clerk for Kennedy.

Barbara Perry

The global challenge is bigger than China

President Trump is firing the opening salvos of a two-front trade war, one in the west against advanced economies and allies, and the other in the east against China. While some critics oppose trade wars in principle, others think that we should unite with our allies against China. The fixation with China is understandable. It is the rising elephant in the room. However, the global economic transformation is larger than China, and efforts to contain China are likely to backfire.

Brantly Womack

Marc Short to join Miller Center as senior fellow

Marc Short, White House director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs and assistant to President Donald J. Trump, is joining the nonpartisan Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia as a senior fellow, effective August 1.