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Kamala Harris isn’t ‘electable’? It could be code for not being a white man

Ideas about which Democrat is electable have to do “with Donald Trump and the campaign he ran in 2016” against Hillary Clinton, said Jennifer Lawless, a University of Virginia political science professor who has studied the concept of gender bias in politics.

Jennifer Lawless

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

How Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders heralded American empire

Scholars and journalists have pored over Theodore Roosevelt for so long, it is difficult to imagine a contemporary author revealing anything novel about his life and times. Clay Risen’s “The Crowded Hour” takes on the challenge.

Sidney Milkis

How Joe Biden won friends in Hollywood by helping studios get their movies into China

That perception is not unreasonable, said Aynne Kokas, author of the book “Hollywood Made in China” and a film industry scholar at University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs. Katzenberg’s presence at events with Xi reflected “the access Katzenberg had to the Obama administration,” she said, adding that raising millions of dollars for the Obama-Biden ticket surely helped.

Aynne Kokas

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