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One Year Later: U.S. Policy Options in the Israel-Hamas War

As the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks approaches, panelists discuss U.S. policy options regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, including the administration’s proposed peace deal and the ramifications of the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Mara Rudman
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What If Jimmy Carter Had a Second Term? '80s Would Have Been Very Different

In an interview with presidential scholar Robert Strong, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and author of Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy, Newsweek explored what the 1980s might have looked like with four more years of Jimmy Carter.
Robert Strong
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Investor reactions to legislative liberalization and the run-up in British share prices, 1844 to 1845

We study the association of shareholder returns with liberalization in government policy during Britain's railway run-up of 1844–5. The findings sustain two main claims. First, the railway returns during the run-up were associated with the advent of liberalizing policies, especially related to free trade, enhanced transparency and governance of firms, and industry consolidation. Second, analysis of cross-sectional variation reveals higher returns to large railways in the South and Midlands of England, several of which were leading consolidators. This study is the first to report an association between policy liberalization and run-up returns and to identify consolidators as the prime beneficiaries of the liberalization.
Robert Bruner, Scott Miller
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Safeguarding the homeland

Kenneth L. Wainstein, UVA alum and under secretary for intelligence and analysis for the Department of Homeland Security, discusses homeland and election security with Ashley Deeks, director of UVA’s National Security Law Center and a Miller Center faculty senior. Wainstein oversees building and maintaining an intelligence program in the United States that detects and prevents threats to the homeland and serves as an information-sharing bridge linking federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies with state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners—all while maintaining a focus on civil liberties and individual privacy.
Ashley Deeks