Michael J. Klein, New York University The shooting deaths of three children and three adults inside a Nashville school has put further pressure on Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons. Such a prohibition would be designed cover…
Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University Over the past decade, a consistent refrain in discussions of politics has been that partisan gerrymandering – the drawing of congressional district lines to disproportionately advantage one party over the other – is unfair…
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Robbin Mellen Jr., University of South Florida The 2024 race for the…
Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ordered…
Michael J. Klein, New York University The shooting deaths of three children and three adults inside a Nashville school has put further pressure on Congress to look at imposing a ban on…
Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University Over the past decade, a consistent refrain in discussions of politics has been that partisan gerrymandering – the drawing of congressional district lines to disproportionately advantage…
Robbin Mellen Jr., University of South Florida The 2024 race for the White House is in motion. Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden said in October 2022 that he intends to seek a…
Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ordered an investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s ongoing criminal probe of former President Donald Trump, he broke with House practices…
Brian Urlacher, University of North Dakota President George W. Bush and his administration put forward a variety of reasons to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the months before the U.S.…
Ashley S. Deeks, University of Virginia The details are disputed, but either way the result was the same: On March 14, 2023, a U.S. drone crashed into the Black Sea after an…
Ashley S. Deeks, University of Virginia The details are disputed, but either way the result was the same: On March 14, 2023, a U.S. drone crashed into the Black Sea after an…
Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, “Trailblazers and Torchbearers,” dives into the…
David E. Clementson, University of Georgia There’s nothing new about presidents avoiding the press. Bill Clinton was in a major scandal – based in large part on getting caught in a deception…
Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino The 27 million people who watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Feb. 7, 2023, witnessed the spectacle of a family divided, with boos…
