Today marks the launch of the First-Year Project, a product of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center whose purpose is to encourage the presidential candidates, their staffs, the political community, and the public to begin thinking systematically about the challenges and issues that will confront whoever becomes president in 2017. Here’s a content-rich link to the project. Note the event that’s taking place today in Charlottesville and the one in Washington next Wednesday—the first in a long series that will occur roughly every two months between now and early 2017. Each cluster of short papers by scholars and administration alumni will focus on a first-year issue: national security and foreign policy; global economy, trade, and competitiveness; fiscal, tax and finances; opportunity and mobility; race, immigration, citizenship; infrastructure; science, technology, and values; broken government; and presidential communications. The first pair of events and the six short background papers that accompany them (all on the website) deal not with policy issues but rather with “Why the First Year Matters.” I’m a senior fellow at the Miller Center and wrote one of those
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