Experts in the News

Hollywood’s Chinese box office was already in decline even before Trump’s tariffs

“During the first Trump administration trade war with China, there was emphasis on negotiating trade in a lot of other sectors, and motion pictures weren’t featured prominently. And during that time the China box office began growing rapidly,” Kokas said.

Aynne Kokas

Democratic capitalism in the age of Trump

Experts in law, politics, and business evaluate American democratic capitalism under President Trump and beyond. Is the Trump administration’s economic approach sustainable? Panelists will discuss its costs and benefits to the future composition of the American political economy.

Scott Miller, Sidney Milkis, Margaret Foster Riley

‘We have absolutely no idea’ how tariffs will shake out, panelists say

Panelists at the Miller Center of Public Affairs Friday weighed where the country is heading.

Scott Miller, Sidney Milkis, Margaret Foster Riley

White House Moves Obama Portrait to Make Room for New One of Trump

“Can you imagine Gerald Ford having a portrait painted of himself ducking?” Ms. Perry said of an assassination attempt against Ford, the 38th president, in 1975. She added, “This would be viewed as lacking in taste in days gone by.”

Barbara Perry

Trump’s New World Order

Eliot and Eric note this week’s jackassery—tariffing McDonald Island and Heard Island off Australia, almost exclusively inhabited by penguins, and Trump’s plan for a four-mile-long military parade to mark his birthday on June 14 and the anniversary of the United States Army. In a more sinister vein they discuss the absolute craziness of the NSC staff purge apparently orchestrated by conspiracy theorist and MAGA influencer Laura Loomer and the subsequent cashiering of NSA Director and Cybercom Commander Gen. Timothy Haugh (as well as his deputy) and the firing of Adm. Shoshana Chatfield as the U.S. military representative to NATO for various imagined DEI sins.

Eric Edelman

Hollywood’s Chinese box office was already in decline even before Trump’s tariffs

Democratic capitalism in the age of Trump

‘We have absolutely no idea’ how tariffs will shake out, panelists say

White House Moves Obama Portrait to Make Room for New One of Trump

Trump’s New World Order

Illumination Spring 2025