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. This means that approximately 2.2 million civilian federal employees would…
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 a political scientist who studies the evolving budget…
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Morgan Marietta, University of Texas at Arlington The first Monday in October,…
Whitley R.P. Kaufman, UMass Lowell Today a majority of U.S. Supreme Court…
Joshua Holzer, Westminster College After the recent NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, it is anticipated that Sweden will soon become the alliance’s 32nd member. The heart of this alliance – which was…
Gabriel J. Chin, University of California, Davis Former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on July 18, 2023, that he had received a letter from the Department of Justice, notifying him…
Jingdong Yuan, University of Sydney At last week’s NATO summit, the members issued a final statement criticising China’s coercive policies, which they said challenge the interests, security and values of the bloc.…
Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University Democrats in Congress are making a new push to get the long-dormant proposed Equal Rights Amendment enshrined into law. As legislation, it would guarantee sex equality in…
Joseph Jones, West Virginia University The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 247 years ago, on July 4, 1776. Political power does not come…
Henry L. Chambers Jr., University of Richmond For months, legislators, legal scholars and people simply interested in democracy and elections were fixated on a case before the Supreme Court, Moore v. Harper.…
Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University and Larry Diamond, Stanford University Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to attend his first state visit at the White House on June 22, 2023, marking a historic…
Jorge Heine, Boston University What does the Ukraine war have to do with Brazil? On the face of it, perhaps not much. Yet, in his first six months in office, Brazilian President…
Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on June 3, 2023, has…
Ali S. Masood, Oberlin College and Conservatory; Benjamin J. Kassow, University of North Dakota; David Miller, East Tennessee State University, and Joshua Boston, Bowling Green State University U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence…
