Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder The Pac-12 is likely to be competing in its last March Madness, as realignment has pushed 10 of its schools to other conferences. What led the most decorated conference…
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…
Nolan Fahrenkopf, University at Albany, State University of New York When Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Joe Biden, on Sept. 21, 2023, the topic of weapons supply was on the agenda.…
Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Five American detainees have been released from imprisonment in Iran as the terms of the swap that set them free is drawing…
Morgan Marietta, University of Texas at Arlington In a 2006 episode of the television show “Boston Legal,” conservative lawyer Denny Crane asserted that he had a constitutional right to carry a concealed…
Jonathan Finn, Wilfrid Laurier University One of the most anticipated events in the summer of 2023 was former President Donald Trump’s mug shot. The Fulton County Sheriff’s office released Trump’s mug shot…
Gabriel J. Chin, University of California, Davis It might seem odd to some that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, many of whom are lawyers and served as senior government officials,…