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…
Rachel Paine Caufield, Drake University Four hundred and forty-four days prior to the 2024 presidential election, millions of Americans tuned into the first Republican primary debate. If this seems like a long…
Joseph Ferguson, Loyola University Chicago and Thomas A. Durkin, Loyola University Chicago After three indictments of former President Donald Trump, the fourth one in Georgia came not as a surprise but as…
Edward L. Lascher Jr., California State University, Sacramento and Joshua J. Dyck, UMass Lowell Issue 1 on the Ohio ballot, which aimed to raise the threshold to change the state constitution from…
Darryl K. Brown, University of Virginia If a person is charged by federal and state prosecutors – or prosecutors in different states – at the same time, which case goes first? A…
Anthony Michael Kreis, Georgia State University An Atlanta, Georgia, grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on Aug. 14, 2023, charging him with racketeering and 12 other felonies related to his alleged…
Thomas A. Durkin, Loyola University Chicago and Joseph Ferguson, Loyola University Chicago A 90-minute court hearing on Aug. 11, 2023, that would have been routine in almost any other case was, in…
Joshua Holzer, Westminster College On Jan. 20, 2021, Kamala Harris became the first African American, the first person of South Asian descent and the first woman to serve as vice president of…
Stefanie Lindquist, Arizona State University Most commentators who have discussed Donald Trump’s pending criminal trials in New York, Florida and – with the late-day revelation on Aug. 1, 2023, that he has…
Gabriel J. Chin, University of California, Davis The Justice Department announced its second federal indictment of former president Donald J. Trump on Aug. 1, 2023. The charges are groundbreaking and not just…
Claire Leavitt, Smith College Since Republicans regained the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections, they have initiated a flurry of investigations. Among their targets: the origin of…