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The Hill

Taking high road is smart move for American businesses and workers

These days, the easy media narrative is that employers and employees are locked in a pitched battle against one another. According to this zero sum perspective, what’s good for one side must be bad for the other. But the reality around the country is much more complex, dynamic, and positive.
Chris Lu
US News

Trump Won't Put a Corker In It

"I've gone by the [theory] that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar," says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia Miller Center. But "so far, Trump has gotten where he's gotten by using not just the vinegar, but the two-by-four."
Barbara Perry
WJLA

Why Jimmy Carter is defending fellow outsider Donald Trump

According to Russell Riley, the co-chair of the University of Virginia Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program, though Carter and Trump have completely different personalities and backgrounds, the two political outsiders have more in common than one might think. "You could hardly find two people who ... were more polar opposite than Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump, the Sunday school teacher and the Studio 54 Manhattanite," he said. But when it comes to their treatment by the Washington establishment, "they are sort on the same side."
Russell Riley
Cavalier Daily

New York Times columnist discusses division in America during forum held at U.Va.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof delivered a talk at Nau Hall Monday to a crowded lecture hall, where he discussed the events of Aug. 11 and 12 in relation to the topic of division and inequality in the United States. The event — titled “Sanctuary and Belonging: Reflections after August 11 & 12” — was hosted by the Miller Center, the Center for German Studies and the Religious Studies Department and moderated by Douglas Blackmon, director of public programs at the Miller Center and the executive producer of American Forum.
Douglas Blackmon
Daily Progress

Opinion/Commentary: What the Cuban missile crisis can teach about dealing with North Korea

With the clouds of war darkening over the Korean Peninsula and an impulsive and untested president in the Oval Office, the threat of nuclear war looms larger than it has in a generation. Many Americans have never felt — genuinely never felt — the apocalyptic fear of nuclear war. Now that such threats and fears have returned, it's worth revisiting lessons from that moment, 55 years ago, when the world looked into the abyss of Armageddon.
Marc Selverstone