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The Conversation - Politics

How Fox News viewership increases belief in the anti-immigrant great replacement theory - Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst; Jesse Rhodes, UMass Amherst, and Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst

17 hours ago

Democrats don't get why they've lost most working class voters -- Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies

17 hours ago

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

17 hours ago

Chilling effects of Trump's war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that's the point -- Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School and Jon Penney, Harvard University; York University, Canada

4 days ago

To '86' occasionally means to kill but usually doesn't: A linguistic investigation into the Instagram threat charge against James Comey -- Phillip M. Carter, Florida International University

5 days ago

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

22 days ago

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

23 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

19 days ago

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

20 days ago

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3 months 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

1 month ago

TMZ descends on Washington in a test of whether tabloid tactics can serve the public interest -- Angelica Kalika, University of Colorado Boulder

17 hours 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

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

2 months 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

26 days 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

Supreme Court ruling: The latest in history of diminishing minority voting rights -- Robert D. Bland, University of Tennessee

17 hours ago

The US Constitution and laws do not protect oil companies from being sued over the harm they cause to the climate -- Alejandro E. Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles and Robert Glicksman, George Washington University

17 hours ago

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed about the American Revolution's meaning even as they lay dying -- Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University

19 days 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

20 days ago

How America's independence from England revolutionized US philanthropy -- Amanda Moniz, Smithsonian Institution

17 hours ago

When Washington and the states are in conflict, the ultimate winner is not always certain -- Kenneth Michael White, Kennesaw State University

17 hours ago

As government privatization efforts grow, lawsuits against federal contractors get more difficult -- Steph Tai, University of Wisconsin-Madison

17 hours ago

Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment -- Andrea Katz, Washington University in St. Louis

17 hours ago

Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration's staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump -- Katie Savin, California State University, Sacramento; Callie Freitag, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Matthew Borus, Binghamton University, State University of New York

1 day ago

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

7 days ago

Colorado voted to end forced prison labor in 2018 – so why are incarcerated people in the state still working for less than $2 an hour? -- Julia Bowling, City University of New York

3 days ago