by Richard E. Peltier, UMass Amherst, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Trump administration announced on March 12, 2025, that it is “reconsidering” more than…
by Amy Lauren Fairchild, Syracuse University and Ronald Bayer, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Federal datasets began disappearing…
by Charles Wise, The Ohio State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s first few weeks in office, a…
by Alex Green, Harvard Kennedy School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As promised, the second Trump administration has quickly rolled out a slew of policies…
by Paul Shafer, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Efforts by Republicans in Congress to make steep spending cuts…
By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College Much has been made of a recent British survey claiming to show a majority of British Gen-Zers prefer a dictatorship….
by Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The National Institutes of Health is…
by Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on…
By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College As I was teaching my international political economy class Tuesday, 3/4/25, we covered tariffs and trade wars. Such events played…
by Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Americans’ trust in government and politicians is at record lows. In a 2022 Pew…