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

13 days ago

Why a growing number of Trump supporters are experiencing voter's remorse -- Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst; Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst, and Jesse Rhodes, UMass Amherst

12 days ago

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

16 days ago

Ted Turner didn't just revolutionize television − he changed the way we see our world -- Michael J. Socolow, University of Maine

13 days ago

Online hate groups sustain their messages by repeating powerful stories or routinely adding new allegations -- Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh

13 days ago

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3 months ago

The American Revolution's triumphant story of democracy and freedom overlooks loyalists who paid a steep price for allegiance to Britain -- Kimberly Nath, San Juan College

13 days ago

Why Trump's call to pull 5,000 US troops from Germany will hurt America -- Michael A. Allen, Boise State University; Carla Martinez Machain, University at Buffalo, and Michael E. Flynn, Kansas State University

13 days ago

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

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

19 days 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

27 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

1 month 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

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

1 month 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

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

1 month 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

2 months 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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

27 days ago

What to do if someone you know in Philadelphia or elsewhere is detained by ICE -- Jennifer J. Lee, Temple University

13 days ago

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

17 days ago

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

1 month 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

4 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

Where will money for the 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' come from? This man has been warning of Judgment Fund abuse for years -- Paul Figley, American University

4 days ago

For the first time in a decade, the next election could be less secure than the one preceding it -- Scott Shackelford, Indiana University

6 days ago

Shutting down federal bee labs threatens bees, beekeepers and the US food system -- Jennie L. Durant, University of California, Davis

6 hours ago

When a president settles his own lawsuit to create a fund for allies, fundamental questions about justice arise -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

3 days ago

The 'warrior ethos' promises victory — history says it leads to defeat -- John Broich, Case Western Reserve University

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