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Trump and the war that helped make America great in the first place

Trump has questioned the role and cost of NATO, complained about bad foreign trade deals and criticized American attempts at nation-building. “He might ask of World War I, 'What was in it for us? Our idealistic leaders were taken to the cleaners by shrewd European politicians,' ’’ says Brian Balogh, co-host of the public-radio program BackStory.

Brian Balogh

How much is too much? Jared Kushner's ever-expanding role in Trump administration

Not only is Kushner's role exceptional in its scope, but Ken Hughes said it's also unheard of, given his lack of experience. Kushner brings no diplomatic, military or foreign-policy track record to the Herculean tasks before him. "Zero," Hughes said. "I can't think of any precedent for it."

Ken Hughes

The Presidency

Hamilton: Constitution a “step to something better”

Americans have seen Alexander Hamilton as both a villain and, thanks to his recent appearance on Broadway, a folk hero. The reality, says Yale University’s Joanne Freeman, is that Hamilton was deeply suspicious of republican forms of government, didn’t trust the masses, and was a “law and order extremist.”

Tom van der Voort

Miller Center

Politics of Resentment, No Guidelines for Governing

With the demise of the American Health Care Act, politicians and political commentators have revived the push for universal health care.

Nicole Hemmer

Fights over Supreme Court nominees are nothing new

Barbara Perry, a University of Virginia expert on the presidency, said she spoke about the confirmation process recently in Charlottesville, Virginia. "A woman stood up and said, 'When did the court become so political?'" Perry recalled. Around the founding of the country, she and a colleague replied, "or at least since we've had two political parties."

Barbara Perry

Trump's TV Obsession Is a First

“The most valuable commodity in Washington is the president’s time, bar nothing," said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at University of Virginia Miller Center. "A president who elects to invest a lot of his time in tracking his own media coverage is, to some extent, debasing his own currency.”

Russell Riley