Experts in the News

Tuning in: Your guide to 7 of UVA’S top podcasts

When it comes to politics podcasts, many are divided among party lines, but that is not the case for “Bipodisan.” As co-hosts, Paul Orzulak, a Democrat, and Mary Kate Cary, a Republican, find common ground to discuss news and current events.

Mary Kate Cary

Trump’s Governing Just Like Obama With Congress Gridlocked

The approach fits the persona of a president who, despite boasts about his deal-making prowess, largely won office by casting himself as a “pugilistic” populist who would not allow the stagnant ways of Washington to deter him, said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Barbara Perry

In the president's own words: Listen to the aftermath of the King assassination

Fifty years ago, at about 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on the second-floor balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. About an hour later, President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was just wrapping up a White House meeting with the governor of Georgia and the president of Coca-Cola, learned that the iconic civil rights leader had been killed. Tapes at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center can help the public piece together exactly what Johnson did in the ensuing days.

Guian McKee