Novick helped kick off the Virginia Film Festival at UVA with a screening of “Things Fall Apart,” an 84-minute episode of the documentary, and then discussed it afterward with the Miller Center's Marc Selverstone.
The Miller Center's Chris Lu writes in TIME about how this year's elections are the story of the remarkable diversity of candidates who sought elected office for the first time—and won.
Brian Balogh, cohost of the Backstory podcast and professor of history at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that the level of partisan divide and Washington gridlock is reminiscent of the late nineteenth century.
It’s one thing not to understand the challenges of a new position. It’s another to ignore the Constitution and the basics of our system, writes the Miller Center's nonresident senior fellow Michael Nelson.
"If tomorrow we put Donald Trump up against Joe Biden, I think Joe Biden would win," says Professor Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
