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Politics-The Conversation
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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How a largely forgotten Supreme Court case can help prevent an executive branch takeover of federal elections
An FBI raid on a Georgia elections facility has sparked concern about Trump administration interference in the 2026 midterms. An obscure 1970s Supreme...
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Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?
Special election results have anticipated recent midterm outcomes. With Democrats now overperforming, that could spell trouble for the GOP in 2026.
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Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE America Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote
The House has passed a bill to require proof of citizenship for voting. Although it likely won’t become law, the bill raises constitutional questions....
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How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence what people believe.
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Trump administration losing credibility with judges and grand juries – a former federal judge explains why this is “remarkable and unprecedented”
Grand juries, historically rubber stamps for prosecutors’ attempts to indict, are rejecting the Trump administration’s moves to indict the president’s...
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Martha Washington’s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom – but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exh...
Ona Judge was one of 9 people George Washington owned when he lived in the President’s House in Philadelphia.
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‘Proportional representation’ could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people feel like their voices are being heard
The electoral system used by many global democracies eliminates gerrymandering and has been shown to give more equal representation to minorities and ...
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How a 22-year-old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wilderness
Washington’s fundamental character as a military leader was forged in the Ohio River Valley, where he also inadvertently helped ignite the French and ...
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Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable
Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.
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How the law can add to child sex trafficking victims’ existing trauma
State law aimed at protecting sexually trafficked children can cause more harm than good by identifying them as criminals and not victims.
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Journalism may be too slow to remain credible once events are filtered through social media
Responsible journalists verify and fact-check information. That can create a lag, leading the audience to believe they’re not just slow but wrong.
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Why ‘The West Wing’ went from a bipartisan hit to a polarized streaming comfort watch over 2 decades, reflecting profound shifts in media and politics...
‘The West Wing’s’ transition from broadcast TV behemoth to ‘bittersweet comfort watch’ in today’s streaming era reveals how much media and political l...
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What is the American Dream, and has it become harder to achieve in recent years?
Whether the American Dream is centered in economic mobility or personal freedom, many citizens believe its achievement has grown more elusive.
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There’s a competition crisis in America’s state legislatures – and that’s bad for democracy
In dozens of states, an increasing number of legislative seats are going completely uncontested by one of the two major parties.
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A terrorism label that comes before the facts can turn ‘domestic terrorism’ into a useless designation
A ‘domestic terrorism’ label that comes before the facts teaches the public to treat the term as propaganda rather than factual diagnosis.
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Clarence ‘Taffy’ Abel: A pioneering US Olympic hockey star who hid his Indigenous identity to play in the NHL
Despite being a foundational figure in American hockey, Taffy Abel – who hid his Ojibwe heritage so he could pass as white – has been largely erased f...
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
In Minnesota, can constitutional protections withstand the actions of a federal government seemingly intent on aggressively violating the rule of law?...
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
Congress has handed ICE a blank check, dramatically increasing its funding without exercising oversight.
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‘Inoculation’ helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds
Priming people to watch out for political deepfakes helps them question the AI-generated videos.
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The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains
The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment that empowered African Amer...
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
State resistance to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota illustrates how federalism keeps authority divided and disputed.
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Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009 endangerment finding – but will courts allow it?
A federal judge dealt one blow to the effort when he found the administration had violated the law in handpicking a panel to question climate science....
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Suspending family-based immigrant visas weakens US families and the economy
Family reunification is often framed as a cost, but evidence shows it functions as social infrastructure that supports work, well-being and economic s...
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I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles
A policing scholar and former FBI special agent lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that govern how federal immigra...
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From Colonial rebels to Minneapolis protesters, technology has long powered American social movements
Smartphone video, ICE-tracking apps and 3D-printed whistles have been emblematic of the protests in Minneapolis. Social movements have long latched on...
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What Franco’s fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today’s America
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a S...
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How the Supreme Court might protect the Fed’s independence by using employment law in Trump v. Cook
This is not a typical employment law case because Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, has far more legal rights to her job than most Ame...
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Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities
Americans are learning and doing the kind of work that civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades: dealing with threats by organizing to h...
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EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health
In the world of cost benefit analysis, if an impact isn’t monetized, it doesn’t exist. A former EPA official explains what’s changing now and why it m...
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Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options
A lack of shelters and affordable housing means survivors of domestic violence have few places to go.
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Afghan migrants stranded in Pakistan after the US suspends refugee resettlement
After a failed US intervention exposed Afghan civilians to Taliban threats, Washington is retreating from its humanitarian obligations.
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ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb
ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.
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The end of ‘Pax Americana’ and start of a ‘post-American’ era doesn’t necessarily mean the world will be less safe
The US may be stepping back from some engagements on the world stage. That’s not necessarily bad news for the rest of the world, an analyst argues.
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There’s long-lasting, negative effects for children like Liam Ramos who are detained, or watch their parents be deported
Children with a parent or family member who is detained, or are part of a drawn-out immigration court case, are twice as likely to have anxiety as you...
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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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