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…
California Representative Maxine Waters on Monday urged Democrats to launch an investigation on President Donald Trump after he leaves office on January 2021. The Democrat lawmaker called Trump’s actions during his four…
Michigan election officials on Monday certified President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state against President Donald Trump, formally granting the Democrat the state’s 16 electoral votes. Aaron Van Langevelde, one of the…
Robert Speel, Penn State American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Yet it’s already assumed Donald Trump will go on to a next…
Mirta Galesic, University of Potsdam and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Most public opinion polls correctly predicted the winning candidate in the 2020 U.S. presidential…
Alexander Cohen, Clarkson University Some Americans fear that the deep political divisions in the country and President Donald Trump’s determination to challenge the results of the election will cause civil war. Those…
Steven Mulroy, University of Memphis There seems to be a real disconnect between the claims of widespread fraud, a stolen election and illegal voting made by President Donald Trump and his allies…
Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs For nearly 30 years, the state of Georgia has voted reliably Republican in presidential elections. Not since 1992 has the state backed a Democrat…
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell President Donald Trump’s recent firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and subsequent resignations from the department of four more top civilian officials – either in protest…
Austin Sarat, Amherst College The state of Michigan, and the United States as a whole, may face a political crisis brought on by President Donald Trump’s continuing efforts to undo the 2020…
Simon F. Haeder, Penn State President-elect Joe Biden has plenty of work ahead of him; reining in the out-of-control pandemic tops the list, and beyond that, there are significant challenges on health…
