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How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US
As President Trump and other Republicans cast doubt on the legitimacy of the US electoral system, other democracies offer lessons in protecting the in...
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Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast
Many Americans are unhappy with the two major parties but seldom support alternatives. New England is an exception.
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Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion
Polls indicate majority support for abortion rights in most states, but laws differ greatly between places that uphold such rights and those that ban ...
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Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency
For body cameras to function as transparency tools, wrongdoing would have to be consistently penalized, highlighting the consequences of noncompliance...
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Honoring Colorado’s Black History requires taking the time to tell stories that make us think twice
This year marks the 150th birthday of Colorado and is a chance to examine the state’s history.
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50 years ago, the Supreme Court broke campaign finance regulation
A gobsmacking amount of money is spent on federal elections in the US. The credit or blame for that reaches back to a landmark, 50-year-old Supreme Co...
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When civil rights protesters are killed, some deaths – generally those of white people – resonate more
From the civil rights era of the 1960s until today, white victims of government violence have received disproportionate attention.
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Violent aftermath of Mexico’s ‘El Mencho’ killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel have set up roadblocks and attacked property and security forces in the days following their leader’s dea...
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Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
AI systems are getting good at optimizing persuasion in commerce. They are also quietly becoming tools for strategic influence.
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How Homeland Security’s subpoenas and databases of protesters threaten the ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide-open’ free speech protected by Supreme Court...
It’s difficult to measure what is lost when an opinion is never voiced and impossible to catalogue the arguments that never form because a speaker cal...
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Why Stephen Colbert is right about the ‘equal time’ rule, despite warnings from the FCC
The ‘equal time’ rule has been around for a century and aims to promote broadcasters’ editorial independence and free expression – an idea that is now...
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Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s
Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to ac...
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Last nuclear weapons limits expired – pushing world toward new arms race
The expiration of the New START treaty has the US and Russia poised to increase the number of their deployed strategic nuclear weapons, pushing the wo...
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Why the ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ have echoed with public support – unlike the campus of Kent State in 1970
In 1970, National Guard troops killed four protesters at Kent State University. In 2026, federal agents killed two Minneapolis protesters. Public reac...
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How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives
The coalitions that Jackson built during his presidential campaigns created enduring infrastructure for later progressives, particularly in Vermont.
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From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers
As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for metaphors.
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TrumpRx, Trump Kennedy Center, Trump National Parks passes − government free speech allows the president to name things after himself
The law is on Trump’s side, in most cases, when his administration names things after him. But citizens still have the right to protest.
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In World War II’s dog-eat-dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order
Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions toward Greenland today ar...
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White men file workplace discrimination claims but are less likely to face inequity than other groups
Research shows that white men who file discrimination charges experience employer retaliation at similar rates as other racial groups.
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How a largely forgotten Supreme Court case can help prevent an executive branch takeover of federal elections
An FBI raid on a Georgia elections facility has sparked concern about Trump administration interference in the 2026 midterms. An obscure 1970s Supreme...
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Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?
Special election results have anticipated recent midterm outcomes. With Democrats now overperforming, that could spell trouble for the GOP in 2026.
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Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE America Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote
The House has passed a bill to require proof of citizenship for voting. Although it likely won’t become law, the bill raises constitutional questions....
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How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence what people believe.
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Trump administration losing credibility with judges and grand juries – a former federal judge explains why this is “remarkable and unprecedented”
Grand juries, historically rubber stamps for prosecutors’ attempts to indict, are rejecting the Trump administration’s moves to indict the president’s...
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Martha Washington’s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom – but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exh...
Ona Judge was one of 9 people George Washington owned when he lived in the President’s House in Philadelphia.
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‘Proportional representation’ could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people feel like their voices are being heard
The electoral system used by many global democracies eliminates gerrymandering and has been shown to give more equal representation to minorities and ...
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How a 22-year-old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wilderness
Washington’s fundamental character as a military leader was forged in the Ohio River Valley, where he also inadvertently helped ignite the French and ...
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Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable
Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.
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How the law can add to child sex trafficking victims’ existing trauma
State law aimed at protecting sexually trafficked children can cause more harm than good by identifying them as criminals and not victims.
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Journalism may be too slow to remain credible once events are filtered through social media
Responsible journalists verify and fact-check information. That can create a lag, leading the audience to believe they’re not just slow but wrong.
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Why ‘The West Wing’ went from a bipartisan hit to a polarized streaming comfort watch over 2 decades, reflecting profound shifts in media and politics...
‘The West Wing’s’ transition from broadcast TV behemoth to ‘bittersweet comfort watch’ in today’s streaming era reveals how much media and political l...
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What is the American Dream, and has it become harder to achieve in recent years?
Whether the American Dream is centered in economic mobility or personal freedom, many citizens believe its achievement has grown more elusive.
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There’s a competition crisis in America’s state legislatures – and that’s bad for democracy
In dozens of states, an increasing number of legislative seats are going completely uncontested by one of the two major parties.
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A terrorism label that comes before the facts can turn ‘domestic terrorism’ into a useless designation
A ‘domestic terrorism’ label that comes before the facts teaches the public to treat the term as propaganda rather than factual diagnosis.
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Clarence ‘Taffy’ Abel: A pioneering US Olympic hockey star who hid his Indigenous identity to play in the NHL
Despite being a foundational figure in American hockey, Taffy Abel – who hid his Ojibwe heritage so he could pass as white – has been largely erased f...
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
In Minnesota, can constitutional protections withstand the actions of a federal government seemingly intent on aggressively violating the rule of law?...
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
Congress has handed ICE a blank check, dramatically increasing its funding without exercising oversight.
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‘Inoculation’ helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds
Priming people to watch out for political deepfakes helps them question the AI-generated videos.
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The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains
The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment that empowered African Amer...
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
State resistance to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota illustrates how federalism keeps authority divided and disputed.
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Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009 endangerment finding – but will courts allow it?
A federal judge dealt one blow to the effort when he found the administration had violated the law in handpicking a panel to question climate science....
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Suspending family-based immigrant visas weakens US families and the economy
Family reunification is often framed as a cost, but evidence shows it functions as social infrastructure that supports work, well-being and economic s...
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I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles
A policing scholar and former FBI special agent lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that govern how federal immigra...
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From Colonial rebels to Minneapolis protesters, technology has long powered American social movements
Smartphone video, ICE-tracking apps and 3D-printed whistles have been emblematic of the protests in Minneapolis. Social movements have long latched on...
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What Franco’s fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today’s America
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a S...
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How the Supreme Court might protect the Fed’s independence by using employment law in Trump v. Cook
This is not a typical employment law case because Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, has far more legal rights to her job than most Ame...
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Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities
Americans are learning and doing the kind of work that civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades: dealing with threats by organizing to h...
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EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health
In the world of cost benefit analysis, if an impact isn’t monetized, it doesn’t exist. A former EPA official explains what’s changing now and why it m...
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Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options
A lack of shelters and affordable housing means survivors of domestic violence have few places to go.
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Afghan migrants stranded in Pakistan after the US suspends refugee resettlement
After a failed US intervention exposed Afghan civilians to Taliban threats, Washington is retreating from its humanitarian obligations.
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ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb
ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.
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