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…
Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School Now that he’s in the 2024 presidential race, the media circus that is Donald Trump is returning for a new season. Trump is still newsworthy. He’s…
Thomas Gift, UCL Is Ron DeSantis the heir apparent to Donald Trump? It sure looked like it on Tuesday. In a US midterm election that saw his Republican party underperform nationally, DeSantis…
Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney No politician, journalist or media critic has ever been heard to utter the phrase “as subtle as a Murdoch tabloid”. So, when Murdoch’s New York Post responded…
Jared Mondschein, University of Sydney On average, the US president’s political party loses 28 seats in the House of Representatives and four Senate seats in their first midterm elections. While votes continue…
Thessalia Merivaki, Mississippi State University; Bertrall Ross, University of Virginia; Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University, and Mara Suttmann-Lea, Connecticut College With control of Congress and statehouses at stake, voters across the nation…
Richard A. Devine, DePaul University and R. Michael Holmes Jr., Florida State University Political spending by corporations is big business. As one corporate executive with experience in business-government relations says, “A company…
Dam Hee Kim, University of Arizona; Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University, and Scott Shackelford, Indiana University The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social…
San Francisco is the best city for immigrants because it offers the most opportunities, the best social services, and a welcoming atmosphere. Here are a few reasons why San Francisco is still…
Rachel E. Bowen, The Ohio State University The U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attacks is resuming its hearings on Oct. 13, 2022, and is expected to produce…
Ramona L. Pérez, San Diego State University As I opened a recent email from my local grocery store chain advertising Hispanic Heritage Month – it runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15…
