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How government killings and kidnappings in Argentina drove mothers to resist and revolt − and eventually win
After the regime ‘disappeared’ their children, Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Maya relentlessly demanded justice – and exposed the atrocities of a ...
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Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination
Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern t...
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Repeated government lying, warned Hannah Arendt, makes it impossible for citizens to think and to judge
When officials lie time and again, people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate, approve or dissent coherently, ...
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Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment
A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within the executive’s power to enf...
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Political polarization in Pittsburgh communities is rooted in economic neglect − not extremism
Voters in places like Aliquippa and Braddock aren’t becoming more radical; they’re responding to decades of disinvestment and institutional failure.
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ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.
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‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a ...
Since the republic’s beginning, it has been uncontested law that to invade someone’s home, the government needs a warrant reviewed and signed by a jud...
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The rise of Reza Pahlavi: Iranian opposition leader or opportunist?
A scholar of modern Iran looks at Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran, and examines what he believes and why his profile has been elevated duri...
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Trump’s insistence on personal loyalty from ambassadors could crimp US foreign policy
Ambassadors play a middle role between the countries where they serve and the one they represent. Trump insists their loyalty must be to the US.
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A government can choose to investigate the killing of a protestor − or choose to blame the victim and pin it all on ‘domestic terrorism’
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives by making dissenters illeg...
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US turns its back on global efforts for women and children terrorized by violence and conflict
The Trump administration’s move to withdraw the US from these organizations risks undercutting lasting peace and global human rights accountability.
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From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace
“When they make a wasteland, they call it ‘peace,‘” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a turn of phrase that a classics scholar says has been relev...
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Filming ICE is legal but exposes you to digital tracking – here’s how to minimize the risk
Federal agents have pepper-sprayed, tackled and detained people recording their actions. If you post your recordings of agents, you also risk the feds...
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The only thing limiting Taylor Swift’s popularity is partisan polarization
Although she’s the world’s reigning pop star, attitudes toward Swift are split markedly along both partisan and gender lines.
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Trump’s stated reasons for taking Greenland are wrong – but the tactics fit with the plan to limit China’s economic interests
A 1951 defense agreement between the United States and Denmark allows the US to build military installations on Greenland to protect the region.
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Iran’s universities have long been a battleground, where protests happen and students fight for the future
Iranian universities have long been places of reform and political imagination – as well as targets of censorship and repression.
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Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order
How the US treats its allies has been a crucial question for every president. What evolved over the centuries into an official embrace of friendly nat...
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For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear...
As the 2026 midterm elections edge closer, most people know the party that controls the White House is likely to lose seats in Congress. They usually ...
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12 ways the Trump administration dismantled civil rights law and the foundations of inclusive democracy in its first year
At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and equal democracy.
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The Insurrection Act is one of at least 26 legal loopholes in the law banning the use of the US military domestically
Can the president use the Insurrection Act and send the military into U.S. cities? A web of legal provisions try to balance presidential power with th...
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Most of the 1 million Venezuelans in the United States arrived within the past decade
Most of the 1 million Venezuelan immigrants in the US arrived relatively recently.
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One cure for sour feelings about politics − getting people to love their hometowns
Fostering a sense of pride in local communities increases citizen participation, including, at a bare minimum, voting in municipal elections.
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Supreme Court likely to reject limits on concealed carry but uphold bans on gun possession by drug users
The high court recognizes a person’s right to self-defense with firearms but has also upheld the government’s power to enforce limits on that right.
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Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy
President Donald Trump’s threats against independent media and free speech look a lot like the actions of autocrats elsewhere intent on undermining th...
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South Florida’s Brightline has highlighted an old problem – every year for the past decade, 900 pedestrians were killed by trains
Railway safety has vastly improved for motor vehicles, but reducing the risk of collisions with pedestrians is much trickier.
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The ‘drug threat’ that justified the US ouster of Maduro won’t be fixed by his arrest
There is no evidence that US intervention in Venezuela will lead to a meaningful reduction in drugs flowing into the United States.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was ahead of his time in pushing for universal basic income
The policy of providing guaranteed cash incomes has gained momentum in recent years. This tool to tackle inequality has the potential to address racia...
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Nearly half of Detroit seniors spend at least 30% of their income on housing costs − even as real estate values fall
Detroit seniors pay more in homeowner’s insurance, utilities and property tax, and those on fixed incomes can struggle to make ends meet.
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Wars without clear purpose erode presidential legacies, and Trump risks political consequences with further military action in Venezuela
President Donald Trump should take notice: From Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, history shows leaders often pay a high political price when wars the...
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Trump lawsuits seek to muzzle media, posing serious threat to free press
The president has sued multiple media companies. He may care less about winning in court than intimidating news outlets, suggest two media scholars.
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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections
At the same time, Americans have been facing worsening storms, wildfires and deadly heat waves.
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George Washington’s foreign policy was built on respect for other nations and patient consideration of future burdens
For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with civility in order to remain i...
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Why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s closure exposes a growing threat to democracy
When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increas...
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Americans have had their mail-in ballots counted after Election Day for generations − a Supreme Court ruling could end the practice
29 states allow mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted days after an election. A case before the Supreme Court could take that decis...
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ICE killing of driver in Minneapolis involved tactics many police departments warn against − but not ICE itself
Police departments have changed their policies regarding use of force over the years to protect life, but ICE and other federal agencies have lagged i...
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Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II
Asian Americans have drawn parallels between today’s attacks on Latinos and a historically exclusive immigration policy that favors some families over...
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Congress takes up health care again − and impatient voters shouldn’t hold their breath for a cure
Why does health care reform keep failing despite decades of attention and expanding costs? A scholar of Congress has some answers.
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Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran: can the Islamic Republic survive a second Trump presidency?
Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela should care more about the US invasion and capture of President Nicolás Maduro than the Islamic Republic of Iran’s...
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2026 begins with an increasingly autocratic United States rising on the global stage
The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests a...
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Colorado faces a funding crisis for child care − local communities hope to fill the gaps
A lack of access to child care costs the state an estimated $2.7 billion in lost productivity and revenue.
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Voters shrug off scandals, paying a price in lost trust
Scandals don’t have the resonance they used to. Both parties could do more to police offenders within their own ranks.
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Can the US ‘run’ Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy
If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot creat...
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I wrote a book on the politics of war powers, and Trump’s attack on Venezuela reflects Congress surrendering its decision-making powers
Congress has a legal, constitutional and even moral responsibility to assert itself as a branch when it comes to military actions by the US, says an e...
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The ‘sacred’ pledge that will power the relaunch of far-right militia Oath Keepers
Founder Stewart Rhodes says he will relaunch the group, serving as an important outlet for thousands of members who have felt lost since his imprisonm...
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