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A campus healing

Brian Balogh, a UVA history professor who also co-hosts "BackStory," a nationally syndicated podcast, says the clashes are an opportunity for some of his colleagues to explain the genesis of fascism and Nazism. "We need to understand how these ideas and some of these tactics were incorporated in American politics," he says. "It's particularly important to understand this history because many of the alt-right protesters claim to be super or hyper-American, yet their ideas did not originate in the United States."'
Brian Balogh
Bloomberg Politics

Trump Adds Afghanistan to List of Issues That Defy Easy Fix

Still, the reversal on Afghanistan carries particular risk with Trump’s white, working-class core followers, many of whom have emotional or personal ties to the military and the strain the extended conflicts in the Middle East has placed on service members, said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs. “It’s their sons and daughters who are gone for months and years at a time on these multiple deployments,” she said. “It’s a huge political gamble for him.”
Barbara Perry
National Interest

Is a U.S.-Russia Reset Possible?

That is why Trump’s reset will almost certainly fail—and a good thing, too, since accommodating Moscow’s current demands would almost certainly mean sacrificing traditional U.S. interests.
Eric Edelman
KGO

Chris Lu has plenty to say on Trump White House!

Chris Lu is a former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor. He has worked in all three branches of government, and worked in the Obama White House. He shares his perspective with Ronn on a variety of topics, including job creation, manufacturing, and the many exits from the current White House administration.
Chris Lu