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Darline Graham's inherited Senate seat revives the 'widow's mandate' with a sibling twist - Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina University

6 days ago

Narrow mail-in voting ruling by Supreme Court adds uncertainty to midterm elections without addressing constitutionality of Trump's executive order -- John J. Martin, Quinnipiac University

10 hours ago

Tiny house villages are increasingly responding to the homeless crisis in America's fast-growing cities -- Yetimoni Kpeebi, University of North Carolina – Charlotte and Brandon Marc Finn, University of Michigan

5 hours ago

The United States' human rights practices are taking a nosedive -- K. Chad Clay, University of Georgia

1 day ago

The long afterlife of QAnon conspiracy theories haunting American politics -- Matthew N. Hannah, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1 day ago

Is it illegal for the president to spend 'patriotic' donations on a White House ballroom or anything else? -- Ellen P. Aprill, University of California, Los Angeles

4 days ago

White supremacists spin a Justice Department indictment against a hate-monitoring group to legitimize extremism and expand recruitment -- Art Jipson, University of Dayton

6 days ago

How journalists and communities work together to confront low levels of trust -- Danielle K. Brown, Michigan State University

6 days ago

Why working-class people account for around 1% of lawmakers in the US – and only 2% in the average democracy around the world -- Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University and Nicholas Carnes, Duke University

6 days ago

After Supreme Court setback, Trump again targets immigration by expanding definition of birthright citizenship -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

6 days ago

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6 months ago

Don't trust the name on the PAC -- Brian Sheppard, Seton Hall University and Andrew Moshirnia, Monash University

13 days ago

Fauci's COVID-origins hearing shows how conspiracy theories became political weapons -- Art Jipson, University of Dayton

26 days ago

58 years of attacks on the media by powerful leaders trying to deflect criticism, from Nixon to Trump -- Heather Hendershot, Northwestern University

26 days ago

Air Force One is more than transportation – it has defined how presidents run the country and meet the world -- Peter Kastor, Washington University in St. Louis

29 days ago

Declassified intelligence is not the same as proof -- Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

1 month ago

Featuring Trump on US coins and bills would put America in rare company -- Jacques Hymans, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California

1 month ago

Trump administration's Freedom 250 organization allegedly misdirected donors away from bipartisan America250 charity -- Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

20 days ago

Republicans control Congress, so why is Trump's SAVE America Act stuck? -- SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, University of Virginia

1 month ago

What Luigi Mangione's celebrity says about Gen Z -- Evan Clarkson, Utah Valley University

7 days ago

The false and the furious: We aren't just bothered by different beliefs – we're bothered when we think others are wrong -- Andras Molnar, University of Michigan and George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University

7 days ago

How American society shields perpetrators of child sexual abuse -- Sarah K Lischer, Wake Forest University

13 days ago

The forgotten racial history of Alligator Alcatraz -- Mark V. Barrow, Jr., Virginia Tech

15 days ago

White parents who tell their kids that race doesn't matter are ignoring the long shadow of racism -- James M. Thomas, University of Mississippi

20 days ago

Democrats have a working-class voter problem that progressives like Abdul El-Sayed are still struggling to solve -- Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies

18 days ago

How an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political power -- Jacob Ware, Georgetown University

21 days ago

Public opinion on abortion has shifted 4 years after Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade -- Laurel Elder, Hartwick College; Mary-Kate Lizotte, Augusta University, and Steven Greene, North Carolina State University

1 month ago

How state constitutions became the battleground for American rights and liberties – on both the left and right -- Quinn Yeargain, Michigan State University

14 days ago

Mail-in voting: Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court to revive executive order setting limits, rejected by lower courts -- John E. Jones III, Dickinson College

27 days ago

Texas prosecutors are calling a teenage shooting spree 'terrorism' – the case could reshape American criminal law -- Art Jipson, University of Dayton

30 days ago

Is withholding federal counterterrorism funds from states – as FEMA has threatened – legal? -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

30 days ago

When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure? -- Aaron Walayat, University of Dayton

1 month ago

Mail ballot mirages aren't fraud, but mail ballot fraud isn't a complete myth -- Andrew E. Busch, University of Tennessee

30 days ago

Justice Jackson's birthright citizenship opinion includes Black Americans in the story of the nation's search for equality -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

1 month ago

Why Trump's move to gut the Endangered Species Act likely won't hold up in court -- Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School

1 month ago

After 1776, the founders designed a government that accounts for 'a degree of depravity in mankind' -- Donovan Fifield, University of South Carolina

1 month ago

As lawmakers politicize the 250th anniversary, Americans are looking for unity over division -- Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst and Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst

1 month ago

As the US turns 250, a forgotten founding influence helps explain its current unease -- Robert A. Ballingall, University of Maine

1 month ago

I study the Declaration of Independence, and here's why the colonists' grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later -- Robert Parkinson, Binghamton University, State University of New York

2 months ago

For nearly 250 years, the US has had eyes on Latin America – but interventions then looked rather different -- Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University

1 month ago

How public celebrations quietly remake what it means to be American -- Catherine Simpson Bueker, Emmanuel College

1 month ago

How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution -- Christopher Magra, University of Tennessee

2 months ago

How a tiny Caribbean island made American independence possible -- R. Grant Gilmore III, College of Charleston

1 month ago

Colorado is facing a housing shortage - building more duplexes and townhomes could be part of the solution -- Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, University of Denver and Susan D. Daggett, University of Denver

6 days ago

Syringe litter did not increase after a needle exchange ban was overturned in Pueblo, Colorado, but health services suffered -- Pranav Padmanabhan, University of Colorado Anschutz; Katherine LeMasters, University of Colorado Boulder, and Paul Christine, University of Colorado Anschutz

1 day ago

Michigan's local election officials are confident in voting integrity ahead of November's midterm election -- Stephanie Leiser, University of Michigan

14 days ago

Michigan progressive Abdul El-Sayed won a combative Democratic nomination for US Senate – he'll face new attacks this fall -- Michael Traugott, University of Michigan

14 days ago

A Colorado jail hasn't allowed in-person visits in nearly 20 years – here's what research says about visitation's effects -- Jillian Turanovic, University of Colorado Boulder and Melinda Tasca, University of Texas at El Paso

16 days ago

How new SNAP restrictions could hit Greater Pittsburgh's food access and economy -- Amelia B. Finaret, Allegheny College

20 days ago

Florida's proposed property tax amendment will require trade-offs – and some residents could end up with higher costs -- Abigail Hall, University of Tampa

27 days ago

Philadelphia's criminal justice fines and fees fall hardest on poorest neighborhoods -- Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University; C. Clare Strange; Nathan Link, Rutgers University, and Brian Lawton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

1 month ago

Paving paradise: Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife, water and peace in the last quiet places in America -- Mariah Meek, Montana State University and Travis Belote, Montana State University

3 days ago