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Trump supporters’ newest rallying cry—‘Send her back!’—reverberates across a nation fraught with racial tension

Trump has long rejected the traditional presidential role of a unifying figure for America’s broad and diverse population, and his decision to spread such inflammatory rhetoric was bound to escalate beyond his control, said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Russell Riley

Trump intensifies attacks on 'The Squad'

If there was any question about where the issue of race would play in the president’s re-election campaign, he answered it at a rally Wednesday night. Chris Jansing is joined by Miller Center senior fellow and former Assistant to President Obama Chris Lu, MSNBC Contributor Victoria Defrancesco, and Republican Strategist Susan Del Percio to discuss if this is a political strategy for the president or just who he is.

Chris Lu

Trump’s Cabinet has become severe headache for his White House

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu, a former White House official under President Barack Obama who managed the Cabinet, said the situation “dispels this idea that Trump—who came in without any experience in government and who ran on the theory of being [a] businessman—could run things better. Clearly, this is not the case.”

Chris Lu

Answering the Call: Leaving the Bench to Serve the President—James F. Byrnes and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932–1945

A senator and then Supreme Court Justice, Byrnes formed a relationship with Roosevelt that is of immense importance for understanding the scope of New Deal reform at home and the eventual triumph of American liberalism abroad.

Sidney M. Milkis and Nicholas F. Jacobs

The Score: Bitter Wheat, Chappaquiddick Anniversary, Firearms Session, WWII Surveys

Fifty years ago this month, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, resulting in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne and setting off a domino effect on his own career and American politics. To look back on this anniversary, I spoke with Dr. Barbara Perry, a historian and presidential scholar at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Barbara Perry

Answering the Call: Leaving the Bench to Serve the President— James F. Byrnes and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932–1945

Perhaps no President in American history has figured so prominently in the development of constitutional democracy as did Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Sidney Milkis

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