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Politics July 18, 2024

How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist, more-sexist past

by Spencer Goidel, Auburn University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] There’s a reason Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is working hard to evoke nostalgia: People…

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Law Enforcement July 17, 2024

Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains

by Javed Ali, University of Michigan, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As investigators analyze what led 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate former…

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Politics July 12, 2024

How political party platforms – like the Republicans’ Trump-inspired one for 2024 – can help voters understand American politics

by Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little…

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Elections July 9, 2024

Groups readying mass voter challenges in Georgia’s 2024 elections. There’s an app for that.

by Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] July 8, 2024 Georgians are logging into hot new apps intended to help find…

Elections June 26, 2024

Racist slurs and death threats: The dangerous life of a Georgia elections official

by Matt Vasilogambros, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] June 25, 2024 Editor’s note: This story contains profanities and racist slurs. When Milton Kidd…

Opinion June 14, 2024

Bookman: Trump allies work to undermine election safeguards that withstood 2020 pressure campaign

by Jay Bookman, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] June 13, 2024 Last fall, James McWhorter was summoned to appear before the DeKalb…

Elections June 12, 2024

Independent voters are few in number, influential in close elections – and hard for campaigns to reach

by Julio Borquez, University of Michigan-Dearborn, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As the 2024 campaign cycle unfolds, campaign strategists, pollsters and political scientists have been…

Elections June 12, 2024

Georgia’s battleground state status spurs partisan elections board skirmishes

by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] June 11, 2024 The Fulton County and Cherokee County election boards are the latest…

Elections June 11, 2024

Biden and Trump may forget names or personal details, but here is what really matters in assessing whether they’re cognitively up for the job

by Leo Gugerty, Clemson University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Some Americans are questioning whether elderly people like Joe Biden and Donald Trump are cognitively…

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Immigration May 8, 2024

Trump promises to deport all undocumented immigrants, resurrecting a 1950s strategy − but it didn’t work then and is less likely to do so now

by Katrina Burgess, Tufts University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters…

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