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How due process, not the First Amendment, got the White House ban on reporters blocked in court
A judge has sided with the three news organizations President Donald Trump barred from the White House – for now.
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AI tools can help Americans meet their civil legal needs
The US legal system often fails to provide counsel for millions of Americans in civil cases. Generic and law-specific AI models can help address this ...
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ICE arrests at Philadelphia International evoke time when airport police helped military catch AWOL Vietnam War soldiers in 1960s
A local historian combed through a 1967 collection of police incident reports from Philadelphia’s airport police that included detentions of soldiers ...
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How Trump’s crypto winnings undermined the industry’s push for looser regulation
The crypto industry scored a series of wins in 2025, only to see its top legislative goal fail in 2026.
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Election officials are fighting wavering voter trust by making mundane processes visible and recruiting citizens to help
A midterm election is coming. In the face of wavering voter trust – some of it driven by forces outside their control – what can election officials ac...
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2 midterm elections that brought on new eras in US politics
Two 19th-century elections are a reminder that a sizable midterm shift, like the one expected in November, can signal long-lasting changes in American...
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Other presidents have let white-collar criminals dodge financial penalties – but not like Trump
No other U.S. president has come close to wiping away the amount in fines and restitution owed to victims that Trump has.
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No cheery time for election pollsters in run-up to US midterms
There are no guarantees that pollsters’ troubles in recent elections and popular skepticism about their dependability will be alleviated anytime soon....
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When presidents ban journalists from the White House, the First Amendment is not the only constitutional right at stake
When President Trump barred three news organizations from the White House, a lawsuit followed. In it, the news outlets invoked their Fifth and First a...
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How red went from the color of revolution to the color of Republicans in US politics
For American conservatives of the Cold War era, red was the color of communists and the mistrusted American left. Now, it’s the color of the GOP, whil...
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What happened at the end of the Revolutionary War? Here’s how Americans set up a brand-new country once the fighting ended
The United States came out of the Revolutionary War victorious. But building a new nation was very different from fighting a war.
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Pete Hegseth is rebuilding the Army’s ‘brass ceiling’
Half of the officers who have been fired or blocked from promotion are women or Black. A scholar who studies the US military explains why that’s dange...
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Your robotic vacuum is a witness: What home robots mean for evidence, privacy and the law
Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court....
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Why Hispanic Americans are losing faith in the American Dream
A public opinion researcher explains why this group’s declining faith goes beyond partisanship and reflects a fundamental question about its sense of ...
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How the American revolt against Flock cameras mirrors the Boston Tea Party of 1773
The bipartisan revolution against automated license plate readers suggests Americans have not entirely lost their rebellious spirit.
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Eight rules to help you understand what campaign finance reporting reveals about influence and support – or doesn’t
Campaign spending is confusing, but there are basic rules to help you understand information about money in elections. They can help you determine wha...
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Trump’s thumbs-up to Irish reunification breaks with precedent, but evokes earlier age of White House support
Trump waded intro controversial territory with his comments in Ireland.
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How ‘portfolio reasoning’ explains Trump’s constant reevaluation of America’s value
Trump has approached governing through the same framework as his former business portfolio, where he casts the US as a flagship holding whose value he...
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Why the Supreme Court blocked Trump and the Postal Service from restricting mail-in voting for the midterms
An election law scholar explains the president’s effort to dramatically limit mail voting ahead of the midterm elections – and why the court decided t...
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How anti-bribery laws apply to Trump’s promise of $5,000 payments if Republicans keep control of Congress
Bribery involves offering money to a particular person, but Trump did not make his $5,000 offer to any single voter or set of voters.
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Security clearances don’t determine whom a president can trust – they reveal risks the president may not know
A report that one of Trump’s aides went a year without routine vetting raises a question a former CIA executive knows well: What is that process for?
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The Pentagon is using polygraphs to hunt leakers, but the tests are more theater than fact
A CIA veteran explains that a polygraph campaign is not likely to eliminate leaks, but it may divert investigative energy from essential security prio...
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Americans agree their democracy is in crisis – yet the solution is as simple as it is elusive
An educated citizenry is the key to making self-government succeed, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said.
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What we remember when we remember 9/11
Having a vivid, detailed memory of a remarkable event like 9/11 can seem like a demonstration of patriotism and a connection with other Americans.
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Pennsylvania is suing TikTok over ‘addictive’ features – a policy expert explains why it’s messier than that sounds
TikTok’s lawsuit fits a pattern – from cigarettes to opioids – of courts stepping in where lawmakers won’t.
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Pennsylvania is suing TikTok over ‘addictive’ features – but that’s messier than it sounds
TikTok’s lawsuit fits a pattern – from cigarettes to opioids – of courts stepping in where lawmakers won’t.
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Supreme Court to decide on whether Trump’s voting-by-mail rules can go into effect – but might not rule yet on whether they’re constitutional
How will the Supreme Court justices approach the vote-by-mail case that concerns the most fundamental right in a democracy, the right to vote? A forme...
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What comes next for the 1 million people who have lost – or will soon lose – Temporary Protected Status
Congress never built a path from temporary status to permanent residence, leaving many people facing deportation with little recourse.
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What we forget when we remember 9/11
There is a strange nostalgia in realizing that something once so immediate now belongs increasingly to people who know it only as the past.
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From the Freedom Caucus to the democratic socialists, small groups inside parties can wreak havoc with leaders’ agenda in Congress
What role might DSA-affiliated candidates play if they win election to Congress in the midterms and the Democrats gain a majority in the House of Repr...
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25 years after 9/11, what disasters reveal about Americans’ ability to reconnect
Decades of disaster research show how catastrophes strain communities – and reveal the connections that help people endure.
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Labor votes: Discontent will accompany blue‑collar voters to the polls in the midterms
In closely contested House and Senate races, even a small shift in union votes could influence the outcome.
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What to do if your vote is challenged: Practical advice for midterm elections
On Election Day, you go to vote – and you’re told you’re not registered or you’re not eligible to vote. A civil rights lawyer provides a guide so vote...
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How students at Colorado State helped teach their community to stop talking past each other and manage complex problems
Research shows that humans are susceptible to simple stories and biased toward arguments that fit their current perspectives. Here’s how to confront t...
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Trust is a behavior, not a credential – and that explains the Rodgers-Fauci divide
Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s – and what experts can do about it.
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Indictments against a top extremism researcher and the SPLC force a reckoning on research ethics – an extremism scholar reflects on the field’s challe...
Indictments of a longtime extremism researcher and her former organization raise a crucial question for researchers in the field: What are the ethical...
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Lake Ontario to Lake America – who gets to decide what goes on maps?
A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.
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Immigration enforcement is supplying a long-standing economic market for prisoners
Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
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Why Democrats are amplifying corruption talk: A historical strategy for parties out of power
In correspondence with their constituents, Democrats are talking about corruption six times as much as they did in 2022.
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USS Abraham Lincoln’s record deployment highlights shortfalls of US military readiness
Navy readiness is a finite reserve that has been overstretched by a US military appetite for interventions in the past 50 years that has not tracked w...
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Tiny house villages are increasingly responding to the homeless crisis in America’s fast-growing cities
As economic and demographic growth increasingly coexists with poverty and homelessness, resident-led alternatives to housing are supporting communitie...
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Narrow mail-in voting ruling by Supreme Court adds uncertainty to midterm elections without addressing constitutionality of Trump’s executive order
Will an Aug. 24, 2026, Supreme Court decision lead to chaos in the midterm elections? An election law scholar dissects the decision, its background an...
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The United States’ human rights practices are taking a nosedive
New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political rights it measures.
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The long afterlife of QAnon conspiracy theories haunting American politics
Ideas from QAnon’s conspiracy theory have appeared on government social media sites during Trump’s second term and continue to divide America amid soc...
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Syringe litter did not increase after a needle exchange ban was overturned in Pueblo, Colorado, but health services suffered
Evidence suggests that people who receive syringes from a needle exchange are less likely to dispose of them improperly.
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