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It’s time for Sally Hemings to show us the unvarnished Thomas Jefferson

Some who visit Monticello choose to ignore those facts, while others wonder why it stands at all, given Jefferson’s life as a slave owner. My hope is that Americans and visitors from around the world will come to understand the past in a meaningful, unvarnished way, and will leave with a fresh appreciation of the need to protect human rights and democratic principles. That requires an honest accounting of the facts and recognition that Monticello has a responsibility to share them with every visitor.
Melody Barnes
WINA Newsradio

Analysis of the U.S.-North Korean summit

Todd Sechser, an associate professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a senior fellow at the Miller Center, joins Les Sinclair to analyze the summit.
Todd Sechser
NBC News

Sinclair Broadcasting, not Fox News, is becoming the truest heir to Roger Ailes' conservative news legacy

"Sinclair Broadcasting Group, the largest owner of local television stations in America, is still not a household name like, for example, Fox News," writes the Miller Center's Nicole Hemmer. "Yet it may be the truest heir to former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes’s original vision of conservative news programming. Long before cable news, Ailes—who died in 2017—had been dreaming up ways to inject local news programs with a conservative spin."
Nicole Hemmer
US News

The Trump-Kim summit has already affected some countries

"[The Trump-Kim] agreement is not the foundation of a grand bargain, it is a screening device," says the Miller Center's Todd Sechser, an expert in international security. "By making this reassurance, by suspending military exercises, the U.S. is trying to reassure North Korea that U.S. intentions are not aggressive. Now it's up to North Korea to respond by making substantive concessions on their part."
Todd Sechser
Time article

Richard Nixon is the reason President Trump's aides have to repair documents he rips up

"I can’t say that this has never happened before; behind closed doors we don’t know what's going on. But I can just say that based on interviews with hundreds of people who worked very closely with [past] presidents, I think they take the Presidential Records Act very seriously,” Miller Center scholar Russell Riley told TIME. “In my 20-plus years of interviewing White House officials, there has been a respect for the necessity of doing this even when it hurt them in their operational activities.”
Russell Riley