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Election 2024: Foreign policy choices

To launch the Miller Center’s election 2024 programming, experts discuss foreign policy planning for the next administration—whether it's a second term for former President Trump or a first presidential term for Vice President Harris. Topics will include what polling is revealing about voter preferences on foreign policy issues; a discussion of U.S. policy toward Ukraine and the Israel/Hamas conflict; U.S. relations with China, NATO and other key alliances; and the role of U.S. trade in an election season.

Eric Edelman

How John Adams Established Enduring American Customs

Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay Chervinsky, the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon and the author the new book, "Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged a Republic."

Eric Edelman, Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Immigration

Far from the actual border, border politics take center stage

JD Vance's false claims about Haitian immigrants have incited threats of violence

University of Virginia students

"Is she electable, though?" Gender Bias in the Media

In the wake of Vice President Harris’s official nomination as the Democratic candidate for President, issues about how the press covers female candidates running for public office (particularly when a candidate is also a woman of color) are again on full display, both obviously and subtly. The Shorenstein Center hosted a timely panel discussion with journalists and scholars about how the media has seeded, promoted, and occasionally knocked down bias, sexism, and misogynoir in public discussions about female politicians, and what the research says about how this coverage has changed in recent years (if at all).

Jennifer Lawless

When President Ford Faced Two Assassination Attempts in One Month

At first, the two assassination attempts against Ford seemed as if they might turn the clock back to the dark days of the 1960s, when the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy convulsed American politics, according to Ken Hughes, a historian with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Ken Hughes

Violent threats and attacks escalate tensions in Trump-Harris race

“The United States has an undercurrent of political violence, and periodically for different reasons it bubbles to the top and explodes into riots, insurrections, succession, assassinations and assassination attempts,” said Barbara Perry, a professor at the University of Virginia who directs the presidential oral-history program. This year, she said, “I think this undercurrent has now become the current. Right now it’s at the surface, and it’s rushing along. We’re in a white-water rapids.”

Barbara Perry