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Was it a coup? No, but siege on US Capitol was the election violence of a fragile democracy
US Capitol mob highlights 5 reasons not to underestimate far-right extremists
Alexander Hinton, Rutgers University – Newark In the wake of the mob incursion that took over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, it’s clear that many people are concerned about violence from far-right extremists. But they may not understand the real threat. The law enforcement community is among those who have failed to understand the true nature and danger of far-right extremists. Over several decades, the FBI and other federal authorities have only intermittently paid attention to far-right extremists. In
Can Joe Biden ‘heal’ the United States? Political experts disagree
Arie Kruglanski, University of Maryland and Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University Editor’s note: When Joe Biden becomes president on Jan. 20, 2021, he will lead a fractured nation whose political factions are separated by a chasm. In his victory speech,
Why friendships are falling apart over politics
Melanie Green, University at Buffalo Former Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Yet despite their obvious legal disagreements, the liberal Ginsburg once described herself and the conservative Scalia as
Fox News viewers write about ‘BLM’ the same way CNN viewers write about ‘KKK’
Mark Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon University; Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University It’s no secret that U.S. politics has become highly polarized. Even so, there are probably few living Americans who ever witnessed anything that quite
Obama book offers key insight about how laws really get made
David Webber, University of Missouri-Columbia Amid all the attention on former President Barack Obama’s new book, what may not have shown up in the reviews is mention of a two-page summary that, for legislative scholars like me, includes what may