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10 ways 100 days have not been weird

In other important but less remarked-on ways, Trump has been about what one would expect any Republican president to be at the hundred-day mark. That doesn’t make him any less unusual; it just means that he is not completely unusual.

Michael Nelson

Presidents Haven't Always Had to Worry About Their First 100 Days. Here's How That Started

Barbara Perry, Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center tells TIME that when Roosevelt spoke of his “first 100 days,” he was referencing not his own first 100 days in office but rather the first 100 days of the new Congress that served during his first term.

Barbara Perry

Fifty Years of the ASEAN-China Relationship

The last twenty years have been the most interesting time of the ASEAN-China relationship, but one composed of two very different decades.

Brantly Womack

How Trump’s first 100 days compares to past presidencies

As a professor, I would say to the students in the first third of the semester, if they scored lower than they wanted on the first test, I would say, you have more tests to do, you have a term paper, participate in class. So, Trump still has many more things on which to be graded.

Barbara Perry

How Trump's first 100 days compares to former presidents

“That is a genuine accomplishment for him and shouldn’t be minimized,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “Otherwise, I think you’re hard-pressed to find any other major accomplishments.”

Barbara Perry

In brief: Angry scientists, alt-right lingo and more

A year ago, many of us had never heard the term “alt-right,” which started popping up in conjunction with former Breitbart News head/President Trump adviser Steve Bannon. That’s because a “language and set of ideas are coming out of a movement that was on the fringe and on the Internet,” says UVA Miller Center’s Nicole Hemmer.

Nicole Hemmer