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One bigly unindicted co-conspirator and other bunches of them, including some in Epstein files now

Trump's efforts to lean on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reminiscent of the way Nixon created a team of secret investigators, known as "the plumbers," to find incriminating or embarrassing evidence about his enemies, said Ken Hughes, a leading Watergate authority and research specialist at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Ken Hughes

Time to End the Last U.S.–Russia Nuclear Treaty

The last bilateral U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control treaty, the New START treaty, is set to expire on February 6. President Trump, who recently indicated he is not troubled by the potential expiration of the treaty, must nevertheless make a decision before then either to allow the treaty’s central limits to be extended, as advocated by Vladimir Putin and several of his factota, or to allow the treaty to fall into history’s dustbin.

Eric Edelman

The new imperialism

Venezuela. Greenland. These are not isolated events. They reveal a coherent strategic logic: the return of imperialism to great-power competition, driven by the material demands of the artificial intelligence economy and the imperatives of managing America’s relative decline.

Allan C. Stam

The United States in Retreat

The United States has always had the ability to shape these institutions, even when doing so required patience, persistence, or open conflict with other major powers. In moments of frustration, previous U.S. administrations fought within the system, rather than walking away, because they understood that the only thing worse than an imperfect institution is one in which your competitors write the rules unopposed.

Chris Lu

Professor Examines History of Presidential Pardons in New Book

How did a short clause tucked in the middle of Article II of the Constitution become one of the most controversial powers of the modern presidency? This question is at the heart of a new book from Professor Saikrishna Prakash of the University of Virginia School of Law. In “The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History,” Prakash chronicles how the pardon has been transformed in recent years.

Saikrishna Prakash

Donroe Doctrine: How Trump is enforcing his will

“He is not a president who is drastically expanding his powers abroad, because he already had those powers. The question is whether he will use them judiciously,” notes Robert Strong, professor emeritus at Washington University and Lee University, in a videoconference organized by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Robert Strong