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Politics-The Conversation
Why working-class people account for around 1% of lawmakers in the US – and only 2% in the average democracy around the world
Campaigning anywhere for any office at any level of government is personally burdensome.
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White supremacists spin a Justice Department indictment against a hate-monitoring group to legitimize extremism and expand recruitment
Extremist groups have pointed to the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center as proof that their worldview is correct.
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Colorado is facing a housing shortage - building more duplexes and townhomes could be part of the solution
A housing simulator predicts that rezoning for ‘missing middle’ housing could increase Denver’s housing supply by 46%.
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How journalists and communities work together to confront low levels of trust
Although it’s important that journalists practice diligence and deference, communities need to be willing to engage, forgive and voice concern.
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After Supreme Court setback, Trump again targets immigration by expanding definition of birthright citizenship
Two new executive orders take aim at aspects of birthright citizenship the high court did not address in its June 2026 ruling.
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What Luigi Mangione’s celebrity says about Gen Z
A psychologist explains why the dark humor around Mangione’s case isn’t evidence of nihilism but of what happens when demands for moral seriousness st...
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The false and the furious: We aren’t just bothered by different beliefs – we’re bothered when we think others are wrong
Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.
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How American society shields perpetrators of child sexual abuse
A community – bystanders, law enforcement, colleagues and family – is likely to deny an atrocity when acknowledging it requires action.
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Michigan’s local election officials are confident in voting integrity ahead of November’s midterm election
Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.
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Michigan progressive Abdul El-Sayed won a combative Democratic nomination for US Senate – he’ll face new attacks this fall
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed will face Republican nominee Mike Rogers this November.
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Don’t trust the name on the PAC
To manipulate voter perception, political action committees are adopting names that signal the opposite political goals from what those groups intend....
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How state constitutions became the battleground for American rights and liberties – on both the left and right
State constitutions play a growing role in American politics. But turning to such documents to recognize rights and liberties is not a new project – n...
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The forgotten racial history of Alligator Alcatraz
The recently shuttered immigrant detention facility continued a long tradition of using alligators in ways that have reinforced demeaning racial stere...
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A Colorado jail hasn’t allowed in-person visits in nearly 20 years – here’s what research says about visitation’s effects
Nearly all county jails across Colorado’s Front Range allow prisoners to visit with their loved ones only virtually.
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Democrats have a working-class voter problem that progressives like Abdul El-Sayed are still struggling to solve
Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class ...
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Trump administration revives conspiracy theories about Cuba’s alleged manipulation of activism in the US
A State Department report on this alleged problem is new, but its claims about alleged communist machinations being behind activist movements in the U...
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Russia is trying to force Ukrainian children to become Russian, with reeducation, forcible transfers and camps
Russia is not just moving Ukrainian children. It is taking away their identities. Will the $25 million being spent by the US to locate and rehabilitat...
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Why Gen Z turns everything – even murder – into a joke
A psychologist explains why dark political humor doesn’t prove young people are nihilistic, but rather reveals what happens when moral seriousness no ...
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How new SNAP restrictions could hit Greater Pittsburgh’s food access and economy
Nearly 14,000 people in one Pittsburgh-area county could lose a benefit that’s long been considered one of the country’s most effective anti-poverty t...
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Trump administration’s Freedom 250 organization allegedly misdirected donors away from bipartisan America250 charity
An accounting scholar explains what charitable solicitation fraud is and how it’s connected to allegations some Democratic lawmakers made on July 2, 2...
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White parents who tell their kids that race doesn’t matter are ignoring the long shadow of racism
18-year old Nolan Wells’ death in Mississippi has raised again the importance of ‘the talk’ that Black parents have with their children. But what do w...
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58 years of attacks on the media by powerful leaders trying to deflect criticism, from Nixon to Trump
American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What...
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How an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political power
The men responsible for the bloodshed 150 years ago were never prosecuted; instead, they rose to South Carolina’s highest offices.
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Fauci’s COVID-origins hearing shows how conspiracy theories became political weapons
Conspiracy theories don’t just explain events – they identify villains, and Fauci is among the most popular.
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Florida’s proposed property tax amendment will require trade-offs – and some residents could end up with higher costs
Amendment 3 would mean most homeowners pay less in property taxes – but that may not end up significantly lowering their costs.
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Better guacamole? How avocado import rules helped cut Mexico’s water pollution – it holds lessons for future US trade deals
Pressure from trade agreements can clean up sources of environmental harm, leading to cleaner rivers in the case of Mexico’s much-loved avocados.
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Mail-in voting: Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court to revive executive order setting limits, rejected by lower courts
The U.S. Constitution gives states control of elections. An executive order by President Donald Trump aims to take away that control and limit mail-in...
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How the Trump administration’s rhetoric promotes anti-transgender views
How invented threats, provocative language and repulsive imagery contribute to declining support for transgender people and other marginalized groups....
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Why ‘democratic neutrality’ is an overlooked threat to American democracy
While only a sliver of Americans say they support violating core democratic norms, many more say they’re ambivalent about politicians who undermine de...
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Air Force One is more than transportation – it has defined how presidents run the country and meet the world
Air Force One shouldn’t be seen as only a cool piece of flying technology or a political flash point. Instead, writes a historian, the presidential pl...
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Texas prosecutors are calling a teenage shooting spree ‘terrorism’ – the case could reshape American criminal law
When does a shooting become terrorism? A Texas case could help define the answer.
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Is withholding federal counterterrorism funds from states – as FEMA has threatened – legal?
Legal scholars argue that when executive branch agencies impose conditions on federal funds, courts should give these cases special scrutiny.
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Mail ballot mirages aren’t fraud, but mail ballot fraud isn’t a complete myth
Shifting counts have a boring cause: who votes by mail, and when those votes get counted. That doesn’t mean all fraud claims are false, though.
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Public opinion on abortion has shifted 4 years after Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade
More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether.
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The antifa terrorism threat the Trump administration describes does not exist
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure or record of deadly a...
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Philadelphia’s criminal justice fines and fees fall hardest on poorest neighborhoods
New research maps where legal financial obligations are concentrated – and finds they overlap with poverty, violence and racial inequality.
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5 lessons from 20 years of climate surveys: Political party matters, but it doesn’t explain everything
Why would a young Republican back solar but reject a carbon tax? Twenty years of survey data shows climate opinion is more complex than party labels s...
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Declassified intelligence is not the same as proof
An international affairs professor with nearly 30 years of experience in the US intelligence community – including at the CIA and NSA – explains how t...
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What Allegheny County’s new court-ordered mental health treatment program can and can’t do
Allegheny County can now order treatment for people with serious mental illness. But what’s driving results – the order itself or the services behind ...
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Most Americans support conservation – here’s how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative got politicians from both parties on board too
An analysis of one major effort shows how to get Democrats and Republicans to agree to spend billions of dollars on a decades-long environmental resto...
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Featuring Trump on US coins and bills would put America in rare company
A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world’s banknotes and coins; almost every one of them is a kin...
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How America’s newspapers lost their voice
Despite the steady decline in daily newspaper editorials, a longtime editor suggests ways for news organizations to restore the spirit of editorials t...
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