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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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Failure of US-Iran talks was all-too predictable – but Trump could still have stuck with diplomacy over strikes
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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Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
With invalid driver’s licenses and birth certificates, transgender people are at risk for more than just steep fines and imprisonment.
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Despite massive US attack and death of Ayatollah, regime change in Iran is unlikely
President Trump has appealed to Iranians to topple their government, but a popular uprising is unlikely to defeat current leadership or the Revolution...
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Massive US attacks on Iran unlikely to produce regime change in Tehran
President Trump has appealed to Iranians to topple their government, but a popular uprising is unlikely to defeat current leadership or the Revolution...
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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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