Experts in the News | Miller Center

How Gender Became the Election’s Crucial Fault Line

“The gender gap can ultimately sway the election,” said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia. “When Democrats exploit it, they win, and when Republicans mitigate it, they win.”

Jennifer Lawless

Scandals just aren't what they used to be

Presidential elections are not what they used to be. We see evidence of this all the time, but here’s a brief reminder that not that long ago a minor scandal in the personal life of a presidential candidate could end a political career.

Robert Strong

An Unlikely Network of Dictatorships

Eric and Eliot welcome back Anne Applebaum, Pultizer and Duff Cooper Prize Winning author of Gulag and Red Famine and currently staff writer with The Atlantic and senior fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. They discuss Anne's new book, "Autocracy Inc: The Dictators who Want to Run the World."

Eric Edelman

Lebanon Cease-Fire Confusion Tests US Approach to Israel, Again

“I see this as critical US leadership maximally leveraging diplomatic alliances to sharpen Israeli understanding and appreciation of the costs of proceeding unilaterally,” said Mara Rudman, who worked on Middle East issues during the Clinton and Obama administrations. “It will be heard and perhaps needs to sink in.”

Mara Rudman

UVA To Launch Institute Focused on National Security

“This institute will leverage UVA’s cutting-edge research capabilities to address national security challenges,” said Philip Potter, a professor of politics and public policy and the founding director of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy’s National Security Policy Center, who will lead the new institute.

Philip Potter

US Strategy Since Oct. 7: Assessing the Biden Administration’s Middle East Policy One Year On

As President Joe Biden approaches his final months in office, he continues to face one of the most intense and intractable conflicts in the Middle East in decades. To assess the administration’s regional policy over the last year and explore any remaining opportunities for a diplomatic resolution of the war in Gaza and associated conflicts, the Middle East Institute is convening a panel discussion featuring foreign policy experts and former US government officials.

Mara Rudman