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The Conversation - Politics

Mail ballot mirages aren't fraud, but mail ballot fraud isn't a complete myth - Andrew E. Busch, University of Tennessee

3 days ago

Public opinion on abortion has shifted 4 years after Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade -- Laurel Elder, Hartwick College; Mary-Kate Lizotte, Augusta University, and Steven Greene, North Carolina State University

3 days ago

The antifa terrorism threat the Trump administration describes does not exist -- Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College

3 days ago

Declassified intelligence is not the same as proof -- Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

4 days ago

Featuring Trump on US coins and bills would put America in rare company -- Jacques Hymans, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California

6 days ago

How America's newspapers lost their voice -- Ken Paulson, Middle Tennessee State University

6 days ago

Republicans control Congress, so why is Trump's SAVE America Act stuck? -- SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, University of Virginia

6 days ago

The Trump administration's global campaign against 'radical left terrorism' is built on a national security memo without congressional approval -- Melinda Haas, University of Pittsburgh

9 days ago

When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure? -- Aaron Walayat, University of Dayton

9 days ago

After 1776, the founders designed a government that accounts for 'a degree of depravity in mankind' -- Donovan Fifield, University of South Carolina

10 days ago

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How Lindsey Graham's keen ability to read the moment propelled him to political relevance for 3 decades -- Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina University

10 days ago

When a congressman beat a senator unconscious, America confronted the limits of free speech -- Paul Quigley, Virginia Tech

13 days ago

For nearly 250 years, the US has had eyes on Latin America – but interventions then looked rather different -- Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University

13 days ago

Washington DC's physical appearance has long been a battleground for competing national ideals and presidential visions -- Allison M. Prasch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

26 days ago

Republicans have beef with Texas Rep. James Talarico – why does meat matter in US politics? -- S. Marek Muller, Texas State University and David Rooney, University of Wyoming

12 days ago

Graham Platner's campaign implosion highlights the hollowness of America's political parties and how they can be hijacked by insurgents -- Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies

17 days ago

The US murder rate fell to historic lows in 2025 – here's why -- James Tuttle, University of Montana

17 days ago

Young women are identifying as less straight; young men, not so much -- Sean G. Massey, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Ann M. Merriwether, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Melissa Hardesty, Binghamton University, State University of New York

17 days ago

Justice Jackson's birthright citizenship opinion includes Black Americans in the story of the nation's search for equality -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College

16 days ago

Why Trump's move to gut the Endangered Species Act likely won't hold up in court -- Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School

9 days ago

Military voters were at the heart of the Supreme Court's mail-in ballot decision -- Jamie Rowen, UMass Amherst

24 days ago

'In the end the court did its job' – a former federal judge reviews a Supreme Court term full of momentous decisions -- John E. Jones III, Dickinson College

24 days ago

As lawmakers politicize the 250th anniversary, Americans are looking for unity over division -- Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst and Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst

12 days ago

As the US turns 250, a forgotten founding influence helps explain its current unease -- Robert A. Ballingall, University of Maine

19 days ago

I study the Declaration of Independence, and here's why the colonists' grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later -- Robert Parkinson, Binghamton University, State University of New York

1 month ago

How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution -- Christopher Magra, University of Tennessee

1 month ago

Philadelphia's criminal justice fines and fees fall hardest on poorest neighborhoods -- Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University; C. Clare Strange; Nathan Link, Rutgers University, and Brian Lawton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

4 days ago

Most Americans support conservation – here's how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative got politicians from both parties on board too -- Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan

6 days ago

What Allegheny County's new court-ordered mental health treatment program can and can't do -- Erica Maloney, Chatham University

6 days ago

Why Colorado replaced its AI discrimination law with a transparency requirement that the feds might challenge anyway -- Stefani Langehennig, University of Denver

17 days ago