David Smith, University of Sydney Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, a zealous convert to Donald Trump’s cause, once offered an expansive vision of how Trump should rule in a second term: “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state,…
Michael Blake, University of Washington On Nov. 16, 2023, the bipartisan House Committee on Ethics issued a scathing report on the behavior of Rep. George Santos, finding that Santos had engaged in “knowing and willful violations of the Ethics in…
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Anthony Michael Kreis, Georgia State University A federal appeals court in Arkansas…
Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Northwestern University Much of the news coverage of the discussions…
Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego The 2.2 million people who live in Gaza are facing economic isolation and experiencing incessant bombardment. Their supplies of essential resources, including food and water,…
Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University Political observers, most Americans and even members of Congress can’t remember a battle for the post of speaker of the U.S. House as fraught as the…
Peter Mansoor, The Ohio State University In the wake of the shocking invasion of southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to destroy Hamas.…
Avner Cohen, Middlebury Institute of International Studies Living for 75 years within a hostile neighborhood has required the state of Israel to provide security against external threats to all its citizens. That…
W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication Their record is uneven. They misfired in one way or another in the past three presidential elections. And yet the prevalence of election polls…
Lester Munson, University of Sydney US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ousted – in a move initiated by members of his own Republican Party – from the second-most important post in…
Susannah Bruns Ali, Florida International University Unless Congress and the White House can agree on a budget or extend funding short term, the federal government will shut down on Oct. 1, 2023.…
Laura Blessing, Georgetown University The U.S. is moving toward a government shutdown. House and Senate appropriators are divided on spending levels, policy riders and additional items, such as support for Ukraine. As…
Morgan Marietta, University of Texas at Arlington The first Monday in October, the traditional date for the beginning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term, is almost here: On Oct. 2, 2023, the…
Whitley R.P. Kaufman, UMass Lowell Today a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices are either self-described originalists or strongly lean toward originalism. Yet less than 50 years ago, originalism was considered a…
