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Americans agree more than they might think − not knowing this jeopardizes the nation’s shared values
Most Americans actually agree on key issues, including reproductive rights, firearms laws and climate change.
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Red flag laws are still used in Colorado’s Second Amendment sanctuaries, just less frequently
Colorado’s red flag law allows judges to order the temporary seizure of guns from someone they think is a significant risk to themselves or others, ev...
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3 strategies to help Americans bridge the deepening partisan divide
People acknowledging and inspecting their own political biases is one way that they can begin to reduce polarization.
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Trump’s agenda will face hurdles in Congress, despite the Republican ‘trifecta’ of winning the House, Senate and White House
Gridlock can still happen under unified government, and for reasons that are likely to be on full display in the 119th Congress, where the GOP control...
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Why does the Senate confirm Trump’s picks for key posts — and how? A legal scholar explains the confirmation process and the ‘constitutional loophole’...
Senators have the power to approve or reject a president’s cabinet nominees. A loophole allows presidents to do an end run around the Senate – but Sen...
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Black entrepreneurs are often shut out from capital, but here’s how some are removing barriers
Black business owners are often frustrated by systemic racial disparities, but a new study shows how they are using race to capitalize on their ventur...
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What Ukraine can now do with longer-range US missiles − and how that could affect the course of the war
The authorization of longer-range missiles by the Biden administration is seen as an effort to counter a buildup of Russian troops supported by fighte...
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Trump’s criminal conviction won’t stop him from getting security clearance as president
Under normal circumstances, Trump’s criminal record and other aspects of his life, including financial history, would disqualify him from getting acce...
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Robo price-fixing: Why the Justice Department is suing a software company to stop landlords colluding on rents
RealPage, Inc. provides software that lets landlords keep rental prices high. The Justice Department cried foul on the price-fixing practice.
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Populist podcasters love RFK, Jr., and he took the same left-right turn toward Trump as they did
How did this lifelong Democrat go full MAGA? A scholar of populism finds some answers in the ‘manosphere’ podcasts credited with helping Trump win, su...
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Better but not stellar: Pollsters faced familiar complaints, difficulties in assessing Trump-Harris race
With a history of presidential polls getting it wrong − sometimes very wrong − how did this year’s polling fare? Some US pollsters did better, but a B...
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Indonesia president’s diplomatic dash takes in China and US − but a Trump presidency may see the aspiring regional powerhouse tilt more toward Beijing...
Southeast Asia’s most populous nation is seeking a role as a regional leader − it may look more to Beijing than Washington to help that happen.
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Republican lawmakers will reshape tax policy in 2025 — a tax expert explains what to expect
The fate of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lies in the balance.
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One election victory does not make a new era in American politics − here’s what history shows
The Democrats’ loss of the White House has provoked major soul-searching among party members. A scholar recommends a review of history to avoid catast...
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3 reasons why a Trump White House might not be a disaster for Ukraine − in fact, it might tighten the screws on Russia
Donald Trump has vowed to bring peace to Ukraine. But talk of a ‘deal’ has led to questions over Trump’s commitment to Kyiv.
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Racism is such a touchy topic that many US educators avoid it – we are college professors who tackled that challenge head on
A history course created amid the upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement invites students to have honest conversations about race. Now in its sev...
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Most US book bans target children’s literature featuring diverse characters and authors of color
The number of book bans in the US has soared in recent years. A new study shines light on which types of books and authors are the main targets.
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‘Inflation is radioactive’: Trump’s victory is part of a global populist wave of voters throwing out incumbents
Inflation is politically radioactive, and voters have a very long memory for it, as Democrats found when Donald Trump won and Kamala Harris lost the p...
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Voters in Arab-American strongholds likely tipped Michigan in Trump’s favor
The votes for Trump added up in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck.
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Pennsylvania will keep its divided legislature thanks to split-ticket voters
Despite the country’s stark political divide, some Pennsylvania voters in deep-red counties still genuinely vote for the representative and not the pa...
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What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?
Historical examples abound of American news consumers being presented with verified facts about controversial figures or events, only to have the exce...
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10 states had abortion measures on the ballot – where they passed, where they failed, and what it all means
Seven measures passed, three failed. What’s left behind is a mosaic of laws that can be hard to understand.
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The election is over − but what is a ‘lame duck’ anyway?
The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period of just days.
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How Trump might target DACA recipients and other immigrant groups
Trump focused on illegal immigration in his campaign and pledged to make a range of sweeping changes – some of which his administration could do witho...
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How Trump won Pennsylvania − and what the numbers from key counties show about the future of a pivotal swing state
Philly turnout underwhelms, steel country sides with Trump, and Erie County keeps its bellwether status.
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What Trump can do to reverse US climate policy − and what he probably can’t change
While he hasn’t released an official plan, Trump’s playbook the last time he was in office and his frequent complaints about clean energy offer clues ...
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Ballot measures to legalize recreational use of cannabis fail in Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota
Two medical measures in Nebraska passed decisively but face legal challenges.
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America’s glass ceiling remains − here are some of the reasons why a woman may have once again lost the presidency
While other countries have had female leaders in office, these women tend to have family connections or hold roles that are less powerful than that of...
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Iran’s currency was already tumbling − and then news of Trump’s victory broke
Iran’s rial fell against the dollar just as Trump was claiming victory. The 2 events are linked, argues an expert on the Iranian economy.
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Now the Electoral College votes for president – 4 essential reads
Voters have cast their ballots. Now the 2024 US presidential election comes down to the Electoral College.
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Trump’s comeback victory, after reshaping his party and national politics, looks a lot like Andrew Jackson’s in 1828
His return follows the trail of another American president who rebounded from defeat to victory and then four years of unchecked power.
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What is ‘ballot curing’? Election expert explains the method for fixing errors made when voters cast their ballots
Ballot curing aims to ensure that every valid vote is counted, even those with messy signatures, misspelled names or missing IDs.
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2024’s Election Day heads into the history books alongside 1964 and 1980 landslides and 2000’s Bush v. Gore nail-biter
In US history, there have been many memorable elections – including those involving quick, decisive wins and others subjected to drawn-out legal battl...
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Will the lights go out on Cuba’s communist leaders? With fewer options to prop up economy, their future looks dimmer
Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle to emerge from.
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Is the election making you feel adrift and wobbly? That’s ‘zozobra’ – and Mexican philosophers have some advice
Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: ‘zozobra,’ a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
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Beefing up Border Patrol is a bipartisan goal, but the agency has a troubled history of violence and impunity
Created in 1924 to enforce draconian new immigration quotas, Border Patrol recruited its first agents from the Texas Rangers militia, giving it a kind...
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How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking ...
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What poll watchers can − and can’t − do on Election Day
Political parties sign up volunteers to observe what happens at polling places – which can improve transparency or cause problems.
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I’m a Muslim immigrant and a psychiatrist living in Michigan – I haven’t decided how to vote yet
Naturalized citizens like the author are an important voting bloc, representing 5% of eligible voters in Michigan.
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The racist ‘one-drop rule’ lives on in how Trump talks about Black politicians and whiteness in America
Donald Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris expose a worldview that defends whiteness as imbued with dominance over other racial groups.
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Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white...
Conservatives defend efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy as tactics against tyranny, but Americans exercise their sovereignty through these c...
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Election anxiety doesn’t need to win − here are 3 science-backed strategies from a clinical psychologist to rein in the stress
Given the polarized political climate in the US, it’s hard not to be affected by the election. But there are ways to make sure stress and uncertainty ...
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The colonial legacy lurking beneath economic unrest in the French Caribbean
Recent protests in the French overseas territories of Martinique and Guadeloupe are ostensibly over cost-of-living increases. But the roots of inequal...
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Monkeys know who will win the election – primal instincts humans share with them shape voters’ choices
Every human brain still holds primitive instincts that we share with our monkey ancestors. Is that part of your brain in charge when you cast your bal...
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Elon Musk misses Philly court date, stalling ‘illegal lottery’ case against him − an expert on Philadelphia politics weighs in
The tech billionaire did not show up to the Thursday morning hearing, which was moved to a courtroom at City Hall due to security concerns.
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For one survivor, the 1920 Election Day massacre in Florida was ‘the night the devil got loose’
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the use of racist literacy tests and poll taxes to ban Black voters. It came too late for Black voters in Ocoee...
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Denver slaughterhouse ban could affect food systems in Colorado and beyond
Ballot measure 309 would ban the only slaughterhouse in Denver, which processes up to 20% of the country’s lamb product.
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Trump’s Detroit insults are based on old narratives local media are rewriting every day
A professor of urban journalism explains what the national press has overlooked about Detroit’s grit and revival.
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International election monitors can help boost people’s trust in the electoral process − but not all work the same way
While the US supports nonpartisan election observers in other countries, the practice has a low profile in this country.
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Who formally declares the winner of the US presidential election?
No, it’s not the TV news networks. The presidential election certification process is a lot more complicated than that − and as Americans learned in 2...
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Sudan’s civil war has left at least 62,000 dead by our estimate − but the true figure could be far higher
The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the broader effects of conflict, ...
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With Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans’ ‘strict father’ has become the creepy uncle
The 2024 campaign closes with candidate Donald Trump and allies conjuring a world of insult and degradation of an infantilized, feminized and vulnerab...
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