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Fourth-year student's TV work goes behind the scenes of history

Long before the final cut is broadcast to millions of people around the country, episodes of the Miller Center’s popular public affairs show “American Forum” get a tuneup from University of Virginia student Alex Griffith.

Katie McNally

UVA Today

Trump And His Lackeys Land In Biggest Ethics Quagmire Yet With Nordstrom Dustup

"I genuinely can’t think of anything that comes close to this particular intervention in relation to the question of conflicts of interest," Riley told TPM.

Russell Riley

“This is not who we are,” critics say about the refugee ban. But what if it is?

For all the recitations of Emma Lazarus — give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses — the story of American openness to immigrants and refugees is more cramped, more Trumpian, than our national myths suggest.

Nicole Hemmer

The Defense Department might pay Trump as its landlord. Is that legal?

"What’s really new about this is with Trump you’ve got a figure who had been an active businessman for his entire career really, up to his victory, in a way no president previously has," Guian McKee, a historian and associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, told the Monitor at the time.

Guian McKee

Energy and the Environment

Coming around to a carbon tax

The ideas put forth by Shultz and Baker closely track a carbon tax proposal suggested by William Gale of the Brookings Institution in an essay for the Miller Center’s First Year Project published in February 2016.

Veterans of Obama’s Labor Department Look Ahead in Anguish

“A hiring freeze is a pretty ham-handed way to decide which [government] functions should exist,” Obama’s Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu, who is now a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, told the Prospect in an interview.

Chris Lu