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Can the nearly $1 trillion-a-year US military really be depleting key weapons in Iran? Michael A. Allen, Boise State University

13 days ago

Latest attack threatening President Trump reflects rising political violence in US -- James Piazza, Penn State

15 days ago

Supreme Court's 'shadow docket' brings hasty decisions with long-lasting implications, outside of its usual careful deliberation -- Wayne Unger, Quinnipiac University

16 days ago

Older Americans who vote live longer than those who don't – new research -- Sara Konrath, Indiana University and Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania

13 days ago

Why Pete Hegseth's Pentagon prayer services challenge traditional notions of separation of church and state – but might be blessed by the Roberts Supreme Court -- John E. Jones III, Dickinson College

25 days ago

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3 months ago

A justice department opinion arguing the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional could revert the nation to a time when presidents freely burned their papers -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

26 days ago

4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game -- Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University

1 month ago

US ceasefire with Iran: What's next? A former diplomat explains 3 possible scenarios -- Donald Heflin, Tufts University

1 month ago

As a philosopher, I'm convinced that Trump isn't lying − he's doing something worse -- Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University

1 month ago

Trump sidelined Congress' authority over war on Iran – and lawmakers allowed it, extending a 75-year trend -- Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology; Institute for Humane Studies and Robert Haswell, Carleton University

13 days ago

I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his immigration policies -- Alex Hinton, Rutgers University - Newark

1 month ago

Why the future of marijuana legalization remains hazy despite high public support -- William Garriott, Drake University

25 days ago

Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed -- Allison Mashell Mitchell, University of Notre Dame

1 month ago

What a US attorney general actually does – a law professor spells it out -- Jennifer Selin, Arizona State University

1 month ago

Presidential words can turn the unthinkable into the thinkable − for better or for worse -- Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University

25 days ago

When a president is unfit for office, here's what the Constitution says can happen -- Kirsten Matoy Carlson, Wayne State University

1 month ago

Pam Bondi's extreme political loyalty to Trump wasn't enough to save her job -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

1 month ago

The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons -- Kevin B. Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2 months ago

Congress still has ways to throttle back Trump's war with Iran – and to ask questions -- SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, University of Virginia and Charlie Hunt, Boise State University

1 month 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

8 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

1 year ago

How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today's progressives -- Bert Johnson, Middlebury College

2 months 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

1 year ago

75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did -- Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University

1 month ago

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

1 year ago

ICE's heavy-handed immigration enforcement was tried once before – by Arizona's notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio in the early 2000s -- Jonathan van Harmelen, Oberlin College and Conservatory

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US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white -- John Broich, Case Western Reserve University

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'Affordable' Pittsburgh doesn't have enough affordable housing – here's why -- Selena E. Ortiz, Penn State

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Kansas revoked transgender people's IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences -- Jae A. Puckett, Michigan State University; L. Zachary DuBois, University of Oregon, and Noelle Martin, Michigan State University

2 months ago

Stockings once worn by Philly's wealthiest man show the value of women's mending in early America -- Emily J. Whitted, UMass Amherst

13 days ago

What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil -- Celina Su, CUNY Graduate Center

25 days ago

Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine for the war in Iran were ignored -- Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University

1 month ago

War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US's ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won't end when Trump leaves office -- Debak Das, University of Denver

1 month ago

Is it 'Ih-ran' or 'E-ron'? Inside the politics of pronunciation -- Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno

1 month ago

Operational secrecy kept the US from making evacuation plans – and that means Americans in the Mideast could wait days -- Donald Heflin, Tufts University

2 months ago

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

6 months ago

The 'drug threat' that justified the US ouster of Maduro won't be fixed by his arrest -- Eduardo Gamarra, Florida International University

3 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

1 year 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

1 year ago

Racial gerrymandering may be here to stay -- Claire B. Wofford, College of Charleston and Jordan Ragusa, College of Charleston

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The missing link in America's critical minerals push isn't mining – it's processing expertise -- Hélène Nguemgaing, University of Maryland and Alan Collins, West Virginia University

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US violent crime is at its lowest in more than a century – but the funding that helped reduce it is disappearing -- Andrea Hagan, Loyola University New Orleans

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How Pennsylvania's new paid leave bill leaves the sandwich generation behind -- Kate Perepezko, Miami University

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Why a landmark Supreme Court ruling has failed to keep racial bias out of jury selection -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

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Trump-Xi summit will be no 'Nixon in China' moment – that they are talking is enough for now -- Rana Mitter, Harvard Kennedy School

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