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The US government’s $44 million vaccine rollout website was a predictable mess – here’s how to fix the broken process behind it
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been a nightmare for many Americans as they struggle through multi-step registration
Trump wasn’t the first president to try to politicize the civil service – which remains at risk of returning to Jackson’s ‘spoils system’
Barry M. Mitnick, University of Pittsburgh The federal government’s core civilian workforce has long been known for its professionalism. About 2.1 million nonpartisan career officials
Biden faces the world: 5 foreign policy experts explain US priorities – and problems – after Trump
Muqtedar Khan, University of Delaware; Garret Martin, American University School of International Service; Jennifer M. Piscopo, Occidental College; Joyce Mao, Middlebury, and Julius A. Amin,
Don’t blame Fox News for the attack on the Capitol
Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Carnegie Mellon University; Mark Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University In the days following the attack on the Capitol,
‘The US is falling apart’: How Russian media is portraying the US Capitol siege
Lena Surzhko Harned, Penn State The storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which was Christmas Eve for Eastern Orthodox Christians, was a perfect
Biden to dismiss Trump’s lift for travel ban
As Trump nears the end of this term, one of his final orders were to lift travel bands from Europe and Brazil. However, Biden stands
Puerto Rico wants statehood – but only Congress can make it the 51st state in the United States
Rashid Carlos Jamil Marcano Rivera, Indiana University Puerto Ricans requested statehood on Nov. 3, 2020, with 52.3% of voters asking to change the island’s status
Extension of Temporary Protection Status provides a moment of relief for Salvadoran immigrants in the US
Hector Amaya entered the United States illegally from El Salvador in 2004. Despite currently being allowed to live and work legally in the US under the government’s Temporary
When families of murder victims speak at death penalty trials, their anguish may make sentencing less fair
Austin Sarat, Amherst College The Trump administration is spending its final months authorizing executions. Ten federal death row prisoners have been killed so far this
In Trump election fraud cases, federal judges upheld the rule of law – but that’s not enough to fix US politics
Charles Gardner Geyh, Indiana University A healthy constitutional culture, in which the people and their leaders respect the authority of their Constitution, requires a baseline
What happens when senators die or are incapacitated?
Nicholas G. Napolio, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Christian Grose, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences What happens if
On Twitter, bots spread conspiracy theories and QAnon talking points
Emilio Ferrara, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they