The Karsh Institute, the Miller Center, the Center for Politics, and the Department of Politics are partnering on a pan-University blog offering timely insights on topics related to this year's elections.
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Before a panel of former White House and Cabinet speechwriters, eight students delivered five-minute speeches in the final round of the fourth annual U.Va. Student Oratory Competition Monday evening. Think Again, a University initiative that promotes free speech, and the Karsh Institute of Democracy hosted the event with the goal of sparking conversation and civic engagement among audience members.
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Roya Pakzad, a Data & Democracy Practitioner Fellow at the Karsh Institute, discovered that around two percent of government defense expenditures was spent on AI, which prompted her to examine the ethicality and transparency of AI procurement.
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Gov. Murphy, a Democrat, and Gov. Cox, a Republican, were part of the latest installment of the Democracy Dialogue series, sponsored by UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Karsh Institute of Democracy.
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“We don’t know to what extent [the election of Donald Trump] could affect Brazil’s sovereignty," worries Yasmin Curzi of UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab. "Starlink may disclose Internet traffic data to the U.S. government."
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“What this [focus on recess appointments] calls into question is the relationship that Trump intends to have with the other institutions that are intended to be a check on the executive—a power that the vast majority of American people, regardless of political parties, says is absolutely important,” Executive Director Melody Barnes told CBC's 'American Roundtable.'
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According to an American Enterprise Institute study—by Karsh Institute Practioner Fellow Sam Pressler—nearly a quarter of people with a high-school degree or less say they have no close friends, whereas only 10 percent of those with college degrees or more say that.
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“I think people are responding to something that’s existential," the Karsh Institute's Melody Barnes told a crowd gathered to hear expert analysis of the 2024 presidential election. "People are feeling a threat that isn’t just, ‘Oh, this kind of bothers me.’ It is a sense of threat to who they are, their sense of security,” she said.
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“The Trump presidency speaks to the depth of the marginalization felt by those who believe they have been in the cultural wilderness for too long and their faith in the one person who has given voice to their frustration and his ability to center them in American life,” said Melody Barnes, the executive director of the Karsh Institute.
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Columnist David Brooks writes about the recent American Enterprise Institute study from Sam Pressler, a Karsh Institute practitioner fellow, that found that 24 percent of people who graduated from high school at most have no close friends.
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"It is the president alone who must make the final decision and who will be held accountable. It is no wonder that almost every occupant of the Oval Office has left with far more gray hair," wrote Karsh Institute Executive Director Melody Barnes.
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