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…
Donald Brand, College of the Holy Cross President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign is difficult results of battleground states with lawsuits, hoping to litigate its way to a win in the 2020 election.…
Steven Mulroy, University of Memphis The Trump marketing campaign has filed two lawsuits in federal court over ballot counting and voting deadlines in Pennsylvania, threatening to take the election to the Supreme…
Timothy R. Bussey, Kenyon College More LGBTQ candidates ran for workplace in the United States in 2020 than ever earlier than – at least 1,006. That’s a 41% improve over the 2018…
Sharon Austin, University of Florida In 2020, Black women set a new record – 117 entered primaries for the House and 13 for the U.S. Senate, in keeping with the Center for…
David Stebenne, The Ohio State University In this yr’s presidential election, phrases corresponding to “law and order” and “the silent majority” have been heard pretty usually from Donald Trump and a few…
Scott Jasper, Naval Postgraduate School The concept that somebody not too long ago tried to influence Americans to vote for a selected candidate by sending them threatening emails might sound outlandish –…
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University U.S. residents who dwell overseas are a largely untapped voter pool large enough to resolve the presidency. In the 2000 contested presidential election, Republican candidate George W.…
* This article relies on a joint investigation by openDemocracy and Mother Jones One of Donald Trump’s top legal professionals leads an organisation that has given no less than $3.3 million since…
W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the opposite day that if preelection polls on this yr’s presidential race are embarrassingly…
“I really didn’t appreciate all those outside people coming into my neighbourhood, my city and causing problems, looting and carrying on. I had a three-hour commute to work because they shut the whole place…
