D. Brian Blank, Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University Brandy Hadley, Associate Professor of Finance and the David A. Thompson Distinguished Scholar of Applied Investments, Appalachian State University The case of Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced on March 28, 2024, to 25…
John A. Fliter, Kansas State University and Betsy Wood, Bard College A movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New…
Kristina M. Lee, University of South Dakota When Utah legislators passed a bill requiring the review and removal of “pornographic or indecent” books in school libraries, they likely did not imagine the…
Richard Briffault, Columbia University Save America, one of former President Donald Trump’s political organizations, is seeking a US$60 million refund from Make America Great Again, Inc., another Trump political organization that is…
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard University What was Donald Trump thinking when he set about trying to maintain the presidency after losing it to Joe Biden? That’s the key question a jury…
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard University What was Donald Trump thinking when he set about trying to maintain the presidency after losing it to Joe Biden? That’s the key question a jury…
Jeff Inglis, The Conversation The Conversation U.S. has commissioned more than three dozen articles relating to the various criminal investigations into the activities of former president Donald Trump before he took office,…
Kathleen Sexsmith, Penn State; Francisco Alfredo Reyes, Penn State, and Megan A. M. Griffin, Connecticut College Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC’s “American Crime”…
Chris Impey, University of Arizona A congressional subcommittee met on June 26, 2023, to hear testimony from several military officers who allege the government is concealing evidence of UFOs. By holding a…
Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University As Congress prepares to head into its August 2023 break, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, shows no signs of ending his five-month-long hold on…
Michael Blake, University of Washington The United States has finished destroying the last of its stock of chemical weapons, marking the end of a 26-year period during which it frequently condemned other…