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Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes
Evolving views about parental gun ownership and liability will likely have ramifications in custody battles.
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75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once d...
In December 2025, the statue of Barbara Rose Johns replaced that of Robert E. Lee as one of the two Virginians displayed in the U.S. Capitol. Here’s w...
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The Department of Justice is suing states for sensitive voter data − an election law scholar explains why federal efforts are facing resistance
The DOJ wants states to send it copies of voters’ names and addresses as well as sensitive information such as driver’s license and Social Security nu...
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Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed
After the Voting Rights Act, federal election observers helped ensure fair voting, but that oversight has increasingly shifted focus − to monitor what...
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What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil
Participatory budgeting makes the people involved more likely to vote – an important consideration in a city like Detroit where many don’t.
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How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
The Clean Air Act gave California the authority to issue tough pollution standards for vehicles, with EPA approval. The Trump administration is now tr...
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Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
Many Americans only know the history of anger and tension with Iran. But an archaeologist who has spent 45 years focusing on Iran says it is worth rec...
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What Americans can learn from other civil activism movements against authoritarian regimes
The US may be experiencing democratic backsliding. Around the world, nonviolent civil movements exist to support democracy and protect fellow citizens...
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War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves offic...
Conducting military strikes against a nation that is engaged in negotiations to reduce its nuclear capacity has set a dangerous precedent.
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I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his ...
Trumpism isn’t dead, as the roaring MAGA-merched crowds at CPAC make clear. But Trump is struggling through a political winter that could signal the e...
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The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today
In the 1960s and ’70s, his arguments also resonated on the left, including with the head of a powerful environmental group.
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Supreme Court’s tariff decision still leaves a ‘mess’ for companies trying to grab refunds
Companies that had sued for tariff refunds are taking different approaches to getting their money back – or quitting the effort.
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Is it ‘Ih-ran’ or ‘E-ron’? Inside the politics of pronunciation
Both President Trump and Vice President Vance pronounce Iran as ‘Ih-RAN,’ not ‘Ih-RON.’ A linguist says that how the country’s name is pronounced may ...
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How the National Security Council typically functions to plan and fully assess risks when presidents consider going to war
The national intelligence community has seemingly been sidelined from Trump’s Iran war decisions – a far cry from previous administrations, writes a f...
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Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly
Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, Philadelphia will require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to workers suffering from symptoms of hormonal cycles...
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Psychological toll of betrayal trauma may help explain why women kept silent for decades after their allegations of abuse against civil rights icon Ce...
A researcher answers the question many asked when they heard charges of abuse and rape against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez: Why didn’t the women sp...
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Psychological toll of betrayal trauma may help explain why women kept silent for decades after alleged abuse by civil rights icon Cesar Chavez
A researcher answers the question many asked when they heard charges of abuse and rape against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez: Why didn’t the women sp...
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The ever-evolving Latino vote is rapidly shifting away from Trump and Republicans
Trump promised to fix the economy, and that helped increase his Latino support in 2024. But the cost of living and ICE raids may be bringing Latinos b...
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What Betsy Ross’ real story tells us about women’s work in the Revolution − and why it still matters 250 years later
Betsy Ross probably did not sew the first American flag, but she was one of many craftswomen whose wartime labor helped build a nation.
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Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine for the war in Iran were ignored
The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is the latest entry in an old and lethal tradition in international politics: the catastrophic gap b...
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Who are Iran’s new leaders? A look at 6 the US placed a bounty on – 2 of whom are already dead
Several people on the list are deeply embedded in Iran’s political, intelligence and security architecture.
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Information is a battlefield: 4 questions you can ask to judge the reliability of news reports and social posts about the US-Iran war
In the face of little information, or misinformation, about the war in Iran, media literacy can prove a valuable tool to assess what’s happening on th...
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How hatred of Jews became a common ground for Islamic terrorists and left-wing extremists, fueling domestic terrorism
Geopolitical violence abroad translates into homegrown threats in the US and Canada. Recent antisemitic attacks show how the Jewish community is a tar...
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Pittsburgh spends millions on juvenile detention – research points to cheaper, more effective alternatives
Allegheny County is pouring millions into a new juvenile detention facility, even as evidence mounts that alternatives to detention are more helpful.
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Pete Hegseth is working hard to make sure the public hears only good news about Iran war
Americans have been able to know what troops at war are facing, and make informed decisions about the war’s cost, because a free press has been able t...
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In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s
There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar expl...
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Nearly 1 in 3 missing children in the US are Black, driving Pennsylvania and other states to propose ‘Ebony Alerts’ to ensure equal protection and pub...
Black children who go missing are often labeled as runaways, which excludes them from the Amber Alert system.
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Federal benefits cuts are looming – here’s how Colorado is trying to protect families with children
A combination of Colorado state tax credits for low-income families is predicted to lift more than 50,000 children out of poverty.
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Legal refugees now face long detention after DHS reinterprets law on applying for a green card after a year
A new DHS policy could result in the detention of thousands of people who have lawful immigration status.
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Congress still has ways to throttle back Trump’s war with Iran – and to ask questions
As critics question President Trump’s motivations for war on Iran, it’s not just about politics. It’s about the Constitution and whether Congress has ...
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Patriots and loyalists both rallied around St. Patrick’s Day during the Revolutionary War
By the Revolutionary War in the late 1770s, those marking the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death on March 17 included Irish immigrants in the Continen...
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Trump’s war against Iran is uniquely unpopular among US military actions of the past century
Trump’s Iran war is historically unique in one critically important way: Early on, the war is not popular with the American public.
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This Sunshine Week, Florida reflects an alarming national trend of blocking the public’s access to information
A lack of transparency at both the federal and state level is making it increasingly difficult for journalists and citizens to hold government to acco...
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Iran war: 4 big questions that help clarify the future of the Middle East
The Iran war is affecting the whole Middle East. An expert on the region looks at four key issues that shed light on the war’s likely end and politica...
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47 years of deep mistrust and misperception paved the way to war between Iran and the US − and complicate any negotiations
The war that began Feb. 28 hews to a familiar, dangerous pattern, writes an Iran expert, from deep, historical mistrust and incompatible strategic int...
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Iraq war’s aftermath was a disaster for the US – the Iran war is headed in the same direction
More than 20 years after the US military success in Iraq, the outcome of the US effort at regime change wasn’t as expected, and authoritarians with cl...
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I’ve studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade, and this is what I see in Hegseth’s boasts, action-movie one-liners and gloating over dominance
Why does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brag and gloat in his statements about the Iran war? In the MAGA media world, war is a game, a test of masculi...
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When Washington and the states are in conflict, the ultimate winner is not always certain
Conflict between Washington and the states is perennial and by design. Lack of clarity about who’s in charge on what issue keeps power from becoming c...
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Operational secrecy kept the US from making evacuation plans – and that means Americans in the Mideast could wait days
A longtime diplomat explains how the State Department normally encourages and helps Americans to leave countries amid political instability and war – ...
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How Denver’s Northeast Park Hill community reduced youth violence by 75%
A neighborhood coalition identified risk factors for youth violence and prevention strategies.
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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority
At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers’ held the power to decla...
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Housing First helps people find permanent homes in Detroit − but HUD plans to divert funds to short-term solutions
Detroit’s homelessness response system could lose millions of dollars in federal funding for permanent supportive housing as the city’s homelessness r...
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CIA agents successfully executed a plan for regime change in Iran in 1953 – but Trump hasn’t revealed any signs of a plan
A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy...
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Public defender shortage is leading to hundreds of criminal cases being dismissed
There are never enough lawyers to provide indigent defense, but the situation has gotten worse since the pandemic.
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Stressed out by politics? You’re not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame
Political content on social media finds you even if you’re not looking for it, and it tends to do so through a sensationalized and emotionally charged...
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‘Destruction is not the same as political success’: US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of endgame strategy
As US bombing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have shown, destruction is not the same as political success.
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The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons
At least 20 million Americans have served time. Most of them can’t or don’t vote, and that may distort some election outcomes, a political scientist a...
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Failure of US-Iran talks was all too predictable — but turning to military strikes creates dangerous unknowns
Silence from the US side after a third round of indirect talks and frustration expressed by President Donald Trump set the stage for military strikes....
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