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Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands - Charli Carpenter, UMass Amherst and Geraldine Santoso, UMass Amherst

13 hours ago

Why MAGA is so concerned with Epstein − and why the files are unlikely to dent loyalty to Trump -- Alex Hinton, Rutgers University - Newark

2 days ago

What's at risk for Arctic wildlife as Trump expands oil drilling access in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska -- Mariah Meek, Michigan State University

13 hours ago

First Amendment in flux: When free speech protections came up against the Red Scare -- Jodie Childers, University of Virginia

13 hours ago

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress -- Nicole West Bassoff, University of Virginia

13 hours ago

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1 year ago

Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court -- Jean Lantz Reisz, University of Southern California

6 months ago

The Trump administration's anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing -- Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois Chicago

23 days ago

'These people do it naturally': President Trump's views on immigrant farmworkers reflect a long history of how farming has been idealized and practiced in America -- Doug Sackman, University of Puget Sound

2 months ago

How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come -- Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Tim Komatsu, UMass Amherst

2 months ago

The military's diversity rises out of recruitment targets, not any 'woke' goals -- Jeremiah Favara, Gonzaga University

14 days ago

Blame the shutdown on citizens who prefer politicians to vanquish their opponents rather than to work for the common good -- Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University

9 days ago

The shutdown – and the House's inaction – helps pave Congress' path to irrelevance -- Charlie Hunt, Boise State University

20 days ago

The Orwellian echoes in Trump's push for 'Americanism' at the Smithsonian -- Laura Beers, American University

3 months ago

John Fetterman is an unusual politician – but his rise from borough mayor to US senator reflects a recent trend -- Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University

13 hours ago

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power -- Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University

1 month ago

Federal judges are frustrated by defiance from the Trump administration and fuzziness from the Supreme Court -- John E. Jones III, Dickinson College

2 months ago

A short history of the separation of powers: from Cicero's Rome to Trump's America -- Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork

9 months ago

Why free speech rights got left out of the Constitution – and added in later via the First Amendment -- Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York

1 month ago

Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce -- Ryan D. Griffiths, Syracuse University

22 days ago

'Big' legislative package shifts more of SNAP's costs to states, saving federal dollars but causing fewer Americans to get help paying for food -- Tracy Roof, University of Richmond

2 months ago

Job of homeland security secretary is to adapt almost continuously to pressures from the department, the public and the world at large -- Frank J. Cilluffo, Auburn University

10 months ago

House speaker's refusal to seat Arizona representative is supported by history and law -- Jennifer Selin, Arizona State University

9 days ago

Many wealthy members of Congress are descendants of rich slaveholders − study demonstrates the enduring legacy of slavery -- Neil K R Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania and Ashwini Sehgal, Case Western Reserve University

7 months ago

The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States -- Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver

23 days ago

Philadelphia continues long history of Black-led protest meetings aimed at fighting racial inequity and prejudice -- Linn Washington, Jr., Temple University

8 months ago

60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that's all too familiar in US history -- Philip Klinkner, Hamilton College and Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

9 months ago

Anti-LGBTQ+ policies harm the health of not only LGBTQ+ people, but all Americans -- Nathaniel M. Tran, University of Illinois Chicago

9 months ago

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner's populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party -- Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies

4 days ago

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don't realize it -- Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology

8 months ago

Zohran Mamdani's transformative child care plan builds on a history of NYC social innovations -- Simon Black, Brock University

15 days ago

Trump's ability to counter Netanyahu's spoiler tactics in public may have been key to advancing a ceasefire in Gaza -- Boaz Atzili, American University School of International Service

19 days ago

Syria's mass graves: Accounting for the dead and disappeared is crucial for the nation to heal -- Stefan Schmitt, Florida International University

9 months ago

Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict -- Christine Leuenberger, Cornell University

9 months ago

Palestinians have long resisted resettlement – Trump's plan to 'clean out' Gaza won't change that -- Maha Nassar, University of Arizona

9 months ago

Trump's anti-Venezuela actions lack strategy, justifiable targets and legal authorization -- Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

22 days ago

The only 'winner' here is Putin: Ukraine unites in response to Trump-Zelenskyy spat and resigns itself to new reality -- Lena Surzhko Harned, Penn State

8 months ago

As the Kremlin eyes a thaw with the White House, Russia's pro-war hawks aren't too happy -- Adam Lenton, Wake Forest University

8 months ago

Is a united European voice possible in the age of Trump, Putin and far-right politics? Germany's new leader intends to find out -- Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University

8 months ago

Florida's new open carry ruling combines with 'stand your ground' to create new freedoms – and new dangers -- Caroline Light, Harvard University

4 days ago

'Jeffrey Epstein is not unique': What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking -- Kate Price, Wellesley College

1 day ago

Slavery's brutal reality shocked Northerners before the Civil War − and is being whitewashed today by the White House -- Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University

3 days ago

Trump's White House renovations fulfill Obama's prediction, kind of -- Chris Lamb, Indiana University

15 days ago