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

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

5 days ago

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

7 hours ago

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

5 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

6 days ago

How the Trump administration's rhetoric promotes anti-transgender views -- Julie D. Nelson, University of Tampa

8 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

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

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5 months ago

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

14 days ago

The antifa terrorism threat the Trump administration describes does not exist -- Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College

13 days 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

16 days ago

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

16 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

13 days ago

Why 'democratic neutrality' is an overlooked threat to American democracy -- Matthew Hall, University of Notre Dame; Brittany Solomon, University of Notre Dame, and Tyler Leigh, University of Notre Dame

8 days ago

How America's newspapers lost their voice -- Ken Paulson, Middle Tennessee State University

16 days ago

Republicans have beef with Texas Rep. James Talarico – why does meat matter in US politics? -- S. Marek Muller, Texas State University and David Rooney, University of Wyoming

22 days ago

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

19 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

26 days ago

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

19 days ago

Military voters were at the heart of the Supreme Court's mail-in ballot decision -- Jamie Rowen, UMass Amherst

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

20 days ago

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

22 days ago

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

29 days 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

1 month 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

6 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

14 days ago

Most Americans support conservation – here's how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative got politicians from both parties on board too -- Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan

16 days ago

What Allegheny County's new court-ordered mental health treatment program can and can't do -- Erica Maloney, Chatham University

16 days ago

Better guacamole? How avocado import rules helped cut Mexico's water pollution – it holds lessons for future US trade deals -- Jayash Paudel, University of Oklahoma

2 days ago

The Trump administration's global campaign against 'radical left terrorism' is built on a national security memo without congressional approval -- Melinda Haas, University of Pittsburgh

19 days ago